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State News November 14, 2024 - 12:30 pm

Kansas foster care compliance report raises concern with ‘sleep-only’ placement of children

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

The court-appointed monitor for Kansas’ settlement of a foster care lawsuit challenged the state’s reliance on “sleep-only” housing because the practice didn’t contribute to satisfactory outcomes for children and distorted statistics.

State Government December 15, 2023 - 12:29 pm

Can you be charged with a felony for helping Kansas voters get registered? That’s back in court

by Stephen Koranda, Calen Moore, Kansas News Service

The Kansas Supreme Court has revived a challenge to a state law that caused advocacy groups to cancel voter registration drives.

State News October 25, 2023 - 1:50 pm

A Kansas foster care agency says kids aren’t sleeping in offices anymore, but they aren’t in homes

by Blaise Mesa, Kansas News Service

Cornerstones of Care has had 17 kids sleep in a new shelter. The agency says it’s an improvement over an office stay, but it’s at a campus that critics call “grim.”

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Education October 13, 2023 - 4:10 pm

With end of federal program, Kansas students face skyrocketing school meal debt

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

School lunch debt has snowballed in the year following the end of pandemic-era free meal programs. An advocacy group warns the debt accumulation could hurt and humiliate Kansas children. 

State Government August 23, 2023 - 2:59 pm

Kansas lawmakers press state’s child advocate for foster care solutions

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

With increased rates of children in the foster care system sleeping in offices and social workers spending their time “shuttling kids” from place to place, advocates say lawmakers and government officials need to step up before the state faces another lawsuit.

State Government April 7, 2022 - 3:33 pm

Attorneys debate potential for Kansas election law to chill voter registration efforts

by Noah Taborda, Kansas Reflector

Voting rights attorneys battled Thursday in the Kansas Court of Appeals over the merits of a 2021 law that threatens felony prosecution for any activity that could be mistaken as the work of an election official.

State News September 16, 2021 - 6:56 pm

Kansas judge won’t block new state voting law

by Noah Taborda, Kansas Reflector

A Shawnee County judge Thursday allowed Kansas to continue enforcing a controversial election law, rejecting arguments it will inhibit voter registration and education efforts. 

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