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Company Sees Retaliation In Kansas Ending Literacy Grant

By • Aug 20, 2019
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The president of the company that formerly ran a literacy program for Kansas' public elementary schools alleged Monday that the state canceled the multimillion-dollar grant in "retaliation" for the firm's opposition to major changes state officials were seeking.

The Troubled History Of The Company Tapped To House Hundreds Of Kansas Inmates In Arizona

By • Aug 16, 2019

TOPEKA — One of the United States’ largest and oldest private prison companies will house up to 600 Kansas inmates in a facility in Eloy, Arizona.

CoreCivic, formerly known as the Corrections Corporation of America, owns and operates 129 prisons, immigration detention centers and other facilities in more than 20 states, including the Leavenworth Detention Center. Its revenues total more than $1 billion a year.

New Kansas Governor Brings Sharp Shift On LGBTQ Foster Kids

By • Aug 5, 2019

Kansas' child welfare agency has drafted guidelines urging foster parents to allow LGBTQ kids in their care to "express themselves as they see themselves," riling conservatives a little more than a year after the state granted legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that do not place children in LGBTQ homes.

Kansas Developing A State Alzheimer’s Disease Plan ... Again

By • Jul 22, 2019
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A task force begins work next month on updating the Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Plan.

A statewide plan to address anticipated growth in the number of Alzheimer’s patients was released earlier this year but was never implemented.

GOP Threat Ends Kansas Governor's Food Assistance Extension

By • Jul 12, 2019
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Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday dropped a policy that allowed several thousand Kansas adults to keep receiving food assistance after failing to meet a work requirement, reversing course days after the state's Republican attorney general threatened to file a lawsuit.

Kansas Supreme Court Justice Targeted By Right To Retire

By • Jul 10, 2019
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A Kansas Supreme Court justice whose votes for abortion rights and against the death penalty made him a political target plans to retire in three months, allowing Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to name a replacement before the Republican-controlled Legislature can intervene.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly Weighs Her Progress After One Legislative Session

By • Jul 5, 2019

One might think the end of her first legislative session as Kansas governor would give Laura Kelly some relief.

"Oh, not much," she said. "We've been extraordinarily busy."

Ex-Senate Leader To Help Lead Kansas Governor's Tax Study

By • Jun 20, 2019
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Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is giving a key role in a study of Kansas tax laws to a former Republican state Senate leader who was ousted after conflicts with one of her GOP predecessors over tax cuts.

Kelly announced Thursday that former Senate President Steve Morris will serve as co-chairman of the Governor's Council on Tax Reform. Kelly noted in her announcement that she served with Morris in the Senate before she was elected governor last year.

Kansas Supreme Court: Lawmakers Finally Put Enough Money Into Schools

By • Jun 14, 2019

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday effectively ended a nearly decade-long lawsuit by ruling that state lawmakers finally sent enough money to local school districts.

Kansas Poised To Use Private Prisons: ‘We’re Out Of Options’

By • Jun 5, 2019

The state spending review panel is freeing up some of the money the Kansas Department of Corrections asked for to place inmates in county jails and private facilities. Prison officials say it’s a last resort.

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