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Elected Education Officials
State Board of Education
- Janet Waugh, (D-District 1)
715 N. 74th Kansas City, KS 66112; (913) 287-5165 - Carolyn Wims-Campbell, (D-District 4)
3824 S.E. Illinois Ave., Topeka 66609; (785) 266-3798
Kansas Board of Regents - Arthur Edwin “Ed” McKechnie, chairman, Arcadia
- Tim Emert, vice chairman, Independence
- Christine Downey-Schmidt, Inman
- Mildred Edwards, Wichita
- Juana "Janie" Perkins, Garden City
- Fred Logan Jr., Leawood
- Dan Lykins, Topeka
- Robba Addison Moran, Hays
- Kenny Wilk, Lansing Lawrence School Board
- Mark Bradford, president
1509 Brink Court, 66047; 843-8656 - Vanessa Sanburn, vice president
765 Ash St., 66044; 785-856-1233 - Bob Byers
1707 E. 21st Ter., 66046; 842-8345 - Keith Diaz Moore
1738 Barker Ave., 66044; 856-1402 - Rick Ingram
1510 Crescent Road, 66044; 864-9819 - Shannon Kimball
257 Earhart Circle, 66049; 840-7722 - Randy Masten
934 W. 21st St., 66046; 760-5196
Administration - Rick Doll, superintendent
832-5000
1000 S.W. Jackson St., Suite 520
Topeka, KS 66612; (785) 296-3421
Special coverage
Lawrence Public Schools working on providing healthier foods, educating students on nutrition
Fourteen-year-old Hayley Luna carefully placed cucumber vines on a fence Monday morning at West Middle School so the vegetables would grow up and not out into the walkways. She also picked ripe tomatoes to sell at a farmers’ market Thursday.
In depth
- Audit: North Dakota university awarded unearned degrees
- February 10, 2012
- Facing pressure to bring in more students as North Dakota’s booming oil industry made it tougher to coax new high school graduates into college, Dickinson State University began looking overseas to boost its enrollment.
- Students show off projects at county science fair today
- February 10, 2012
- Daniel Mangiaracino has been waiting most of his life to participate in a science fair — well, at least since before he was in kindergarten.
- South Middle School honor roll for fall 2011
- February 10, 2012
- These South Middle School students have been named to honor rolls for the first semester of the 2011-2012 school year:
- Kansas House chair removes teacher rating measure
- February 9, 2012
- A proposal from Gov. Sam Brownback to post teacher evaluations on school district websites was removed Thursday from a House education bill after it sparked outrage.
- Three long-time Lawrence public schools administrators to retire
- February 9, 2012
- Three veteran administrators — who have more than a 100 years of education experience among them — will retire from Lawrence Public Schools at the end of the school year.
- High school students invited to program on college financial aid
- February 9, 2012
- Area high school students and parents at an event on the Kansas University campus this Sunday can learn more about financial aid for college and become eligible to win a $500 scholarship.
- Event to offer social media tips to parents
- February 7, 2012
- Lawrence middle school parents who are worried about what their child is doing online or over the phone might want to attend the next Middle School Parent Connection event.
- School consolidation working group renews resolve for mission
- February 6, 2012
- With time running out before a deadline to make a recommendation to the board, a working group looking at consolidating schools in the Lawrence district decided to press ahead with its original charge on Monday and is still asking for more data.
- Free State High School honor roll for fall 2011
- February 6, 2012
- These Free State High School students were named to the honor roll for the first semester of the 2011-2012 school year.
- Rich district, poor district on opposite sides of Brownback school finance plan
- February 6, 2012
- Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to remove state limits on local property tax increases for schools got a thumbs-up Monday from a wealthy school district, but poorer districts said the proposal wouldn’t be fair to their students.
- Lawrence public schools, United Way program in running for Kansas Leadership Center award
- February 6, 2012
- Lawrence Public Schools and the United Way have teamed up to become one of seven finalists for the Kansas Leadership Center’s Academy for Team Leadership program, which offers the winning organization up to $1 million in leadership training.
- Time winding down for working group’s school consolidation recommendations
- February 5, 2012
- Time is about to be up for a group of community members who have been tasked to decided which of Lawrence’s elementary schools should close.
- Eighth-grader spells out a win in county bee
- February 5, 2012
- Consecrate, subjugate, ethanol, ubiquitous and contiguous. Those are just a few of the words Emma Steimle was able to spell correctly, helping her win the first-place trophy at the Douglas County Spelling Bee on Saturday.
- Lawrence teenager’s job comes with unexpected complications
- February 3, 2012
- When 15-year-old Ellen Dalagar landed a job washing towels through Free State High School, she had to prove she wasn’t laundering money.
- Firm maps out school consolidation group’s proposals
- January 31, 2012
- Rob Schwarz, a consultant with RSP, warned the community working group tasked with closing elementary schools in Lawrence that they were playing a game of chess. Move one piece, and the rest of the board shifts.
- Liberty Memorial Central Middle School honor roll for fall 2011
- January 29, 2012
- These Liberty Memorial Central Middle School students were named to honor rolls for the first semester of the 2011-2012 school year.
- Bishop Seabury Academy honor roll for fall 2011
- January 29, 2012
- These Bishop Seabury Academy students were named to the honor roll for the fall semester of the 2011-2012 school year. These students had grade-point averages of at least 3.5, with no grade lower than a B-.
- St. John Catholic School honor roll for fall 2011
- January 29, 2012
- These sixth-graders at St. John Catholic School have been named to honor rolls for the fall semester of the 2011-2012 school year.
- Veritas Christian School honor roll for fall 2011
- January 29, 2012
- These Veritas Christian School students have been named to honor rolls for the first semester of the 2011-2012 school year.
- Gov. Brownback’s plan to post teachers’ rankings causes outcry; GOP senator describes plan as ‘toxic’
- 05:10 p.m., January 26, 2012 Updated 07:23 p.m.
- Gov. Sam Brownback has formally introduced his 138-page school finance overhaul, and it includes a provision that Brownback officials had not discussed before publicly: a proposal to evaluate teachers, partly based on student achievement, and post their rankings on the Internet.
- 3 high school students from Lawrence named candidates for Presidential Scholar designation
- January 24, 2012
- Lawrence High School senior Leah Towle and Free Sate High School senior Sisira Srisutiva have been selected as candidates for the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program.
- Principals give update on grade realignment
- Middle schools may tweak scheduling, staff
- January 24, 2012
- Five months into a grade realignment, Lawrence middle school principals reported on their successes and challenges at Monday night’s Lawrence school board meeting.
- Working group gives pros, cons of school consolidation options
- January 21, 2012
- In a kind of public school version of the television show “Survivor,” a group of more than 30 parents and teachers have been meeting for the past five months to determine which schools would be voted off the Lawrence school district’s island.
- At competition, students model future cities around clean energy
- 09:25 p.m., January 21, 2012 Updated 11:40 a.m.
- The cities of the future will be models of efficiency and good living. They will run on clean energy and have staggeringly beautiful gardens. They will also have names like Snoopy City and Pinkville.
- First-year math teacher at LHS singled out for honor
- January 19, 2012
- When students ask Lawrence High School math teacher Jason Karlin why they need to know those complicated algebra II equations, Karlin has 15 years of corporate experience to back up his answer.
- Schools task force to forward consolidation proposals to consultants
- January 17, 2012
- A school consolidation advisory group picked what members believe are the five best scenarios for closing two to three elementary schools in Lawrence over the next couple of years.
- Brown v. Board site to honor MLK
- January 14, 2012
- The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site has activities planned to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
- First Bell: 750 words could yield $5,000 for a young entrepreneur; board member joins advisory board for Community Corrections
- January 12, 2012
- Time for another edition of “First Bell,” a look at issues and items involving education in and around Lawrence.
- Kansas education board at impasse over Brownback school funding plan
- January 11, 2012
- Bi-partisan discomfort with Gov. Sam Brownback’s school finance plan emerged Wednesday among members of the State Board of Education.
- Bi-partisan discomfort with Brownback’s school finance plan expressed
- January 11, 2012
- Education Board member Ken Willard, a Republican from Hutchinson, who supports Brownback’s school funding proposal, pushed for approval of a motion that applauded the governor’s efforts.
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