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Superintendent: Lawrence schools plan welcome center, seek to boost staff pay and more updates
A district welcome center, an expansion of a program to help high schoolers earn KU credits, and “streamlining” to ensure the district’s pay for staff members is competitive are all in the works, according to the Lawrence Public Schools superintendent.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Superintendent: Lawrence schools plan welcome center, seek to boost staff pay and more updates
A district welcome center, an expansion of a program to help high schoolers earn KU credits, and “streamlining” to ensure the district’s pay for staff members is competitive are all in the works, according to the Lawrence Public Schools superintendent.
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City of Lawrence to distribute $150,000 in grant funding to arts nonprofits
Lawrence’s Cultural Arts Commission will soon look to disseminate $150,000 in grant funding to local arts organizations.
Jeff Burkhead/Lawrence Times
Fence belongs to homeowners, but George Floyd mural belongs to Lawrence community
May 25 marked the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. June 18 will mark the two-year anniversary of the completion of a mural — recognizing Floyd and the Black Lives Matter Movement — that was spray painted on the back of a wood fence facing a bustling Lawrence roadway.
University of Kansas athletics administrator taking run at Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate
Paul Buskirk, academic support director in the athletics department at KU, said members of his family had always been engaged in service, whether as a teacher, doctor, pastor or in other ways.
Ken Lassman
Kaw Valley Almanac for June 13-19, 2022
When they first emerge, these Echinacea pallida ray flowers on the edge of the seed disk shoot skyward, then flatten out, finally relaxing enough to point down to the ground or even curve under toward the stalk.
Where kids 18 and younger can eat free summer meals in Douglas County
Free summer lunches are available for children at community sites in Lawrence, Baldwin City and Eudora, and one Lawrence site will also start serving breakfasts this week.
August Rudisell/The Lawrence Times
Lawrence school board to discuss adding new student fee, hear capital outlay fund report
The Lawrence school board on Monday will discuss the possibility of altering student fees owed every year and adding a device fee for the use of school technology.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Marker dedication pays tribute to 3 Black men lynched 140 years ago in Lawrence
A ceremony Friday on the north side of Lawrence City Hall honored the lives and memory of three Black men who were murdered by a white mob atop the Kansas River bridge on June 10, 1882.
Historian, author shares deep understanding of racial violence in Kansas, and Lawrence, history
Author and history professor Brent Campney said because Kansas was a “free state,” Kansans — particularly Lawrencians — have maintained the perception that their communities are more welcoming and accepting than they truly are.
Lawrence community leaders raise questions about plan for road and roundabout to nowhere
Some community leaders are raising red flags over a City of Lawrence and Douglas County plan to build a road extension that they say “helps no one and harms wildlife.”
Longtime teacher, coach selected as Lawrence High assistant principal
Greg Farley, who has taught math and coached numerous sports at Lawrence High School over the past 23 years, has been selected as the school’s new assistant principal.
Kansas abortion amendment: How all registered voters can cast a ballot in August’s primary election
Kansas voters will decide on Aug. 2 whether to amend the state constitution with a provision that says it doesn’t promise access to abortion.
Fally Afani
Lawrence arts scene ramping up for Art + Culture + Crossings
The upcoming Art + Culture + Crossings public art project will bring sights, sounds, stories, sass and supplies to downtown Lawrence later this month.
Emma Pravacek via CASA/Contributed
Second annual Winds Across the Prairie concert to benefit Douglas County CASA; tickets go on sale Friday
A September concert, set during the golden hour at a private estate overlooking Clinton Lake, will benefit an organization that works to support children through the foster and court system.
Plan for Lawrence’s Community-Police Oversight Work Group gets approval from city commission
The Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday approved a plan for a work group that will revise how complaints against Lawrence police officers are handled and reviewed.
Lawrence City Commission denies zoning request from Dutch Bros Coffee
After hearing from more than a dozen neighbors opposed to to a request that would have allowed a Dutch Bros Coffee location on 23rd Street, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2 against the plan.
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