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Arts & Events March 30, 2024 - 1:20 pm

Easter Egg Roll with Dole draws hundreds of Lawrence community members

by Cuyler Dunn

Hundreds of people brought their spring colors, face paint and Easter baskets to the Dole Institute of Politics on Saturday for the eighth Easter Egg Roll with Dole.

State Government March 30, 2024 - 1:05 pm

Want more young Kansans to run for office? A coming pay raise in the Statehouse might help

by Daniel Caudill, Kansas News Service

Kansas lawmakers are set to receive a substantial pay raise next year. Some say that’s key to recruiting more young and working class people to run for office.

Education March 29, 2024 - 6:08 pm

In Lawrence schools, admin pay grew faster than teachers’ for years. Recent raises have started reversing the trend.

by Cuyler Dunn

For four years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the gap between administrators’ salaries and teachers’ salaries in Lawrence Public Schools grew bigger and bigger. That trend has started reversing, but there’s still frustration about the gap.

Education March 29, 2024 - 3:35 pm

Lawrence school district superintendent denounces bill banning gender-affirming care for youths

by Maya Hodison

The Lawrence school district superintendent has spoken out against state legislation that would block transgender youths’ access to gender-affirming health care in Kansas.

Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
Crime & Courts March 29, 2024 - 2:34 pm

Lawrence man sentenced to probation after taking plea in rape case

by Mackenzie Clark

A Lawrence man was sentenced Friday to two years of probation in connection with a woman’s report that he had raped her in 2018 after a party ahead of her freshman year at KU. 

Andrea Albright / The Lawrence Times
Crime & Courts March 28, 2024 - 10:30 pm

Plea results in time-served sentence for Lawrence man convicted of sexual battery; questions could lead to appeal

by Andrea Albright

A Lawrence man who agreed to plead no contest to charges of aggravated battery and sexual battery was sentenced to time served Thursday after spending more than 4 1/2 years in jail awaiting trial, but the case may not yet be over.

Education March 28, 2024 - 8:36 pm

Lawrence Public Schools’ enrollment has dropped for four straight years. Where the students went is unknown. 

by Cuyler Dunn

All of the 10 largest districts in Kansas saw their enrollment drop during the pandemic-riddled 2020-21 school year; all but Lawrence have bounced back to see some enrollment growth in the last few years.

Education March 28, 2024 - 6:03 pm

‘What Were You Wearing?’ art installation to give voice to sexual assault survivors

by Maya Hodison

After 10 years of representing a global movement empowering voices of sexual assault survivors, the “What Were You Wearing?” art installation will be hosted at KU in April.

Fally Afani Ruzik
Community Voices March 28, 2024 - 4:56 pm

Courtney Farr: How bowling one Sunday changed my life (Column)

by Courtney Farr

”Every time we have an event, I wonder if this is the day that alters someone’s life for the better. … If nothing else, someone felt a little less alone in the world,” Courtney Farr writes in this column.

State Government March 28, 2024 - 9:58 am

Kansas Legislature sends Democratic governor bill banning under-18 transgender health care

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

The Kansas Legislature voted to send an intensely divisive bill Wednesday to Gov. Laura Kelly forbidding gender transition surgery, prescribing of puberty blockers and delivery of other gender-affirming care by medical professionals in Kansas to people younger than 18.

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