Spring 2003 will see the final classes exit the doors of three elementary schools with long and proud traditions within the Lawrence community. Find out more about the Centennial, East Heights and Riverside schools below.
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- Time flies
- A timeline of significant events in the schools’ histories.
- Principal parade
- Since Centennial, East Heights and Riverside schools opened decades ago, the principal scepters have changed hands dozens of times. Here’s a partial list of those who served.
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- Lawrence school board to answer consolidation questions Monday
- October 21, 2011
- Members of the Lawrence school board will get a chance Monday to “affirm, change or cancel the charge” of its volunteer advisory group assigned to recommend a plan for closing two or three elementary schools during the next two to three years.
- First Bell: Agenda set for next week’s meeting of Consolidation Working Group; Adult Learning Center schedules open house
- September 28, 2011
- Time for another edition of “First Bell,” a look at issues and items involving education in and around Lawrence.
- Task force talks additions, subtractions as it studies future of local elementary schools
- January 17, 2011
- Renovate Cordley and Pinckney schools. Turn New York School into an early-childhood center. Replace both Sunset Hill and East Heights buildings with new, larger schools designed to meet the growing needs of district programs and student populations.
- Kennedy School makes way for East Heights students
- July 13, 2010
- Kennedy School will turn 50 years old in January.
- Boys and Girls Club leasing former school building
- July 4, 2010
- It won’t be long until Janet Murphy and her staff will begin to serve 300 elementary students in the former East Heights School, 1430 Haskell Ave.
- Board OKs closure of East Heights
- June 15, 2010
- Lawrence school board members Monday night unanimously approved the closure of the East Heights Early Childhood Family Center building.
- Lawrence Public Schools announce an additional $500,000 in administrative cuts
- 02:33 p.m., June 7, 2010 Updated 05:58 p.m.
- Lawrence school district leaders have eliminated the equivalent of 11.5 full-time administrative support staff positions — through attrition and six layoffs — at district headquarters as part of $4.6 million in cuts for next school year.
- Lawrence School Board to consider boundary change to move Kennedy students to New York
- April 8, 2010
- Lawrence school administrators have proposed a boundary change to shift more Kennedy School students into New York School for next year to make room for early childhood students at Kennedy.
- Preliminary discussions under way about Boys and Girls Club taking over East Heights building
- New occupant needed as early-childhood programs set to vacate facility
- March 24, 2010
- The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence has expressed interest in using the school district’s East Heights building after the early-childhood programs move into Kennedy School next school year.
- School board decides to keep Centennial for district uses
- September 29, 2004
- The Lawrence school district will hold onto a closed elementary school for its purposes instead of leasing it or turning it over for other uses.
- Riverside closes book on memories
- May 22, 2003
- The school has stood in the same spot since it was founded in 1903.
- Former student, teacher recall East Heights’ memories
- May 21, 2003
- 6News reports on a former East Heights student and teacher as they recall their time at the school.
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