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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

Free Press Online

The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

Free Press Online

The special education classroom sits baren.

NEWS: Special Education Funding Crisis

Morgan Sponholtz, Yearbook Managing Editor April 22, 2025

After deliberation over multiple sessions, the Kansas Senate passed the 2025-2026 school budget on March 27. The Kansas State Board of Education recommended $84 million for special education but legislators...

Reporter Fiona McAllister reads a Simpson's comic book with freshman Benji Horton.

Happy helper

fiona mcallister, reporter December 13, 2013

Rather than spend the day going from class to class, freshman Benji Horton spends most of his day in the special education classroom. Horton has autism, a developmental disorder that affects his social...

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