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Here are the local, state and federal races on the ballot for Shawnee County voters in the Nov. 5, 2024, general election.
Tim Hrenchir, Topeka Capital-Journal March 22, 2024 at 2:21 AM Lisa Schmitt, a member of the Board of Education for Topeka USD 501, is running as a Republican for the office of Shawnee County clerk.
Voters guide for Aug. 2, 2022 primary: Shawnee County has 16 candidates running for eight seats to represent Topeka in the Kansas Legislature.
The Kansas evolution hearings were a series of hearings held in Topeka, Kansas, United States from May 5 to 12, 2005 by the Kansas State Board of Education and its State Board Science Hearing Committee to change how evolution and the origin of life would be taught in the state's public high school science classes.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
Shawnee County saw 29 candidates file in the 12 races for state House and Senate positions by the noon Monday deadline. All Topeka-area legislative races have candidates on both side of the aisle ...
McKinley Langford Burnett was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas in 1897. In his years of growing up he encountered many acts of discrimination. In school he was not allowed to participate in plays unless he was dancer, in the Army as a soldier he was discriminated against, and as a supply clerk for the Veterans Administration he had many limits because of his skin color.
Four Kansas Senate districts and eight Kansas House districts are up for election in Shawnee County in 2024.