Coordinated School Health grants boost rural Kansas districts
Kansas districts including Cimarron Dighton Garden City Greeley County Holcomb Scott County and Ulysses receive Coordinated School Health grants totaling 59 750 to fund health and wellness programs. Funds support eight wellness components from health education to family involvement plus staff and student activities such as walking programs and after school fitness initiatives aimed at improving academic outcomes.
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Robert O’connor
Holcomb Usd
Cimarron
Dighton
Garden City
Greeley County
Scott County
Ulysses
Kansas
Holcomb
Greeley Co
Scott Co
Holcomb Recreation Commission
O'Connor
Polly Witt
Witt
Leah Shapland
Lane County Health Department
USD 482
Greeley County Usd 200
Martha Schlegel
More Students Use Free Lunch Programs, Budgets Stretched
Nutrition officials report an 80 percent rise in free and reduced price lunch counts across schools. An average of 425,000 more students participate, while reimbursements of $2.57 per lunch are deemed insufficient, prompting calls for Congress to boost funding as costs rise.
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Thornton
School Nutrition Association
Agriculture Department
Congress
Sunflower power project faces Supreme Court stay lift
The Sunflower coal plant case returns to the Kansas Supreme Court as officials urge lifting the stay to advance the 3.6 billion project. Environmentalists warn of 11 million tons of CO2, with Sunflower planning to sell power to Tri-State of Colorado and Golden Spread in Texas while Bremby's regulatory interpretations face objection.
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Cess
OAH
Supreme Court
Carol Green
Kansas Supreme Court
Sunflower
High Court
Green
Brembey
KDHE
Tracy Diel
Stephanie Cole
Kansas Sierra Club
Kansans
Nick Persampieri
Earthjustice
Sierra Club
State Supreme Court
Kathleen Sebelius
Bremby
Kansas
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association of
Colorado
Golden Spread Electric Cooperative
Texas
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