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Members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group — including, seated at table, from right, Josh Davis, Alison Nye, Stella Murphy, Chris Lempa and others — listen as facilitators outline various "scenarios" suggested for consideration. The presentation, during a meeting Nov. 21, 2011, included discussions of where students might go under a variety of options for consolidating elementary schools.
Deena Burnett, language arts teacher at West Junior High School, is president of the Lawrence Education Association.
Lawrence resident Howard "Ford" Sypher, an Army veteran, is director of Team Rubicon's four-state region that includes Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska.
Alesia Herd, a senior at Lawrence High School, competed Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2011, as a member of the Lions 4 team in the 2011 High School Design Competition at Kansas University.
Kailey Wingert, a senior at Lawrence High School, competed Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2011, as a member of the Lions 4 team in the 2011 High School Design Competition at Kansas University.
Kayla Hicks, a senior at Lawrence High School, competed Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2011, as a member of the Lions 4 team in the 2011 High School Design Competition at Kansas University.
Ashleigh Lawson, a senior at Lawrence High School, competed Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2011, as a member of the Lions 4 team in the 2011 High School Design Competition at Kansas University.
Members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group are scheduled to meet tonight to begin suggesting, adjusting and forming scenarios for reducing the Lawrence school district’s roster of elementary schools by two or three within the next couple years. In this file photo from Monday, Nov. 7, are, from left: Alison Nye, Stacey White, Karla Hughes and David Unekis, representing Pinckney School; and Lois Orth-Lopes, a teacher and ex-officio member from Cordley School. Nye also is a teacher and ex-officio member of the working group.
Representatives of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group attended Monday night's meeting of the Lawrence school board. Their task: Ask the elected officials for clarification on issues affecting the group's work. In the front row, from left, are group members (and school communities they represent): Chris Lempa (New York), Dawn Shew (Kennedy), Chuck Epp (Cordley), Michell Iwig-Harmon (Woodlawn) and Dennis Hill (Hillcrest). In the row behind them are Julie Boyle, the district's communications director, and group members David Unekis (Pinckney) and Daisy Wakefield (Sunset Hill).
Alexa Posny, a part-time Lawrence resident who serves in Washington as assistant secretary of education for special education and rehabilitative services, visited Cordley School on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, to discuss President Obama's jobs bill.
Laurie Scott, school resource officer at West Middle School, is leading the charge to provide kids with gifts and their families with food for the holidays through the new Lawrence Police Blue Santa Program. Scott joined leaders from several organizations Oct. 18, 2011, at Capital City Bank in downtown Lawrence to celebrate their organizations being chosen to receive proceeds from efforts conducted by the Lawrence St. Patrick's day Parade Committee.
Members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group split up into smaller groups to discuss specific issues. Discussing equity during the working group's Oct. 17, 2011 meeting were, clockwise from top center: Chuck Epp (in glasses), representing Cordley School; Jeny Bellavia, representing Woodlawn School; Paula Meyers, representing Kennedy School; Stacey White, representing Pinckney School; Daisy Wakefield, representing Sunset Hill School; and Josh Davis, representing New York School. They met at district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive.
Members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group split up into smaller groups to discuss specific issues. Discussing equity during the working group's Oct. 17, 2011 meeting were, clockwise from top center: Chuck Epp (in glasses), representing Cordley School; Jeny Bellavia, representing Woodlawn School; Paula Meyers, representing Kennedy School; Stacey White, representing Pinckney School; Daisy Wakefield, representing Sunset Hill School; and Josh Davis, representing New York School. They met at district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive.
Chuck Epp, a member of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group, organizes his own documents while some of the the group's communal records — Ground Rules, plus unresolved issues idling in a "Parking Lot" — are affixed to the wall inside a meeting room at district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive. Epp and fellow group members met Oct. 17, 2011.
Chuck Epp, a member of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group, organizes his own documents while some of the the group's communal records — Ground Rules, plus unresolved issues idling in a "Parking Lot" — are affixed to the wall inside a meeting room at district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive. Epp and fellow group members met Oct. 17, 2011.
Rex Huston is watering — and watering, and watering, and watering some more — his reseeded lawn along Harvard Road.
A Firebird adorns the new wind screen on the fence along the west side of the stadium at Free State High School.
Sara Moreano, who works out regularly in the stadium at Free State High School, will be relieved to know that she won't need clearance from the school office to take a few laps or to run stairs.
A new wind screen is in place at the stadium at Free State High School. As noted, the school's football boosters made the donation. Mike Hill, Free State's athletics director, estimated that it had cost a few thousand dollars.
This sign now greets folks entering the stadium area at Free State High School, 4700 Overland Drive.
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