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Lawrence school board approves interim superintendent contract
The Lawrence school board on Monday approved a contract with Interim Superintendent Jeanice Swift, including a salary of $194,482 for 10 months.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
The Lawrence school board on Monday approved a contract with Interim Superintendent Jeanice Swift, including a salary of $194,482 for 10 months.
As the Lawrence school board is poised to approve an interim superintendent contract with a salary equivalent to $235,000 over a full year, here’s a glimpse at how superintendent pay compares across several districts.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
The process to appoint community members to City of Lawrence advisory boards has left some board applicants and members of the public feeling as though they’re in the dark.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
In response to the latest point-in-time count of people experiencing homelessness in Douglas County, the City of Lawrence says employees are making individual connections with people, leading to “powerful milestones of impact.”
The latest point-in-time count numbers of people experiencing homelessness in Douglas County show a count just slightly higher than 2020, the previous record year.
Lawrence school board President Kelly Jones on Wednesday announced the board’s selection of Jeanice Swift as interim superintendent.
Molly Adams/Lawrence Times
With almost all ballots counted, the incumbent Douglas County district attorney has lost her seat, a longtime incumbent state senator will hold on for the general election and a city commissioner could not unseat an incumbent county commissioner.
With the primary election days away, we gave each of the three Democrats running for Douglas County district attorney a chance to answer voters’ questions on an ethics complaint, an accusation of prosecutorial misconduct, views on officer conduct and more.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
Dozens of Lawrence community members gathered Saturday morning to identify solutions to barriers between the community and police. Their comments boiled down to one overarching message: We’re all humans, and we need to treat each other as such.
Both outside candidates being considered for the interim Lawrence superintendent left their previous superintendent jobs under some controversy.
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