Tag: funding
Thursday was a day of mixed messages for those in public education. If in a “hot spot” of high rates of coronavirus, schools should postpone opening, President Donald Trump advised Thursday. But if they delay,…
Determined to reopen America’s schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to hold back federal money if school districts don’t bring their students back in the fall. He complained that his own public…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The father of a former Kansas Republican Party chairwoman who is seeking to unseat freshman Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids from her seat representing a Kansas City area swing district has…
Most of us take the US Postal Service for granted. That there is a post office in nearly every little town in the United States, that we can send a letter from anywhere to anywhere…
Kansas school districts are trying to budget for some pretty big unknowns right now. No one knows if it will even be safe to have students in schools in August, and everyone’s worried about the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the organization of failing to do enough to stop the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas top law enforcement official says boosting spending on services for the mentally ill and treating substance abuse is crucial to reforming the states criminal justice system. Attorney General Derek Schmidt…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas new chief justice plans to push for changes aimed at helping veterans and the mentally ill, and expects to press for a big budget increase from a Republican-controlled Legislature thats…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Six trial-court judges in Kansas filed a lawsuit Friday against the state Legislature in hopes of forcing it to increase funding for the court system in a move certain to intensify…
Even though Allen County commissioners maintain some hope the Kansas Department of Transportation will help pay for damage done to detour routes while work was done on U.S.-169, it knows the money it will receive…
