The Lawrence school board will hear a report regarding the school district’s progress on its strategic plan during its meeting on Monday.
Superintendent Anthony Lewis is expected to provide the update, which is scheduled to occur during a work session. The board will not take any action on the matter.
The overall purpose of the strategic plan, which the board approved in June, is to help increase district ...
In a little over a month, Allie Martinez will be giving a deeply personal speech in a statewide Boys & Girls Club competition. But that's far from the only thing on her mind right now.
Once she graduates from Free State High School, she said she'll probably be moving to New York, Los Angeles or another big city for architecture school — a big change from her life in Lawrence. She'll be far away from her ...
Bishop Seabury Academy’s Academic WorldQuest team is heading off to nationals this spring.
The school’s team finished first at the Kansas City, Mo., regional, which was held this week at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said Leslie McCaffrey, admissions director for Bishop Seabury. The team took on many area schools, including much larger high schools from the Shawnee Mission and Blue Valley school ...
Solving water scarcity is not an easy task, but students at Lawrence's Southwest Middle School were recognized this week for envisioning a solution to that problem in the future.
A group of Southwest students known as Team Lima placed second in the Future City national competition, which was held in Washington, D.C., this week, by envisioning a new water system for the city of Lima, Peru. For the competition, ...
A former linebacker for the University of Kansas has been sentenced to two years of probation for his conviction of aggravated battery.
On Tuesday, Kenny E. Bastida, 20, was sentenced to 24 months of probation with an underlying sentence of 12 months in prison, Dorothy Kliem, trial assistant for the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office, told the Journal-World on Wednesday.
If he ever violates the terms ...
Months of work by Douglas County staff to develop a major overhaul of the county's zoning regulations came to an end Wednesday as the Douglas County Commission authorized the proposed changes during its regular meeting.
But Tonya Voigt, the county’s director of zoning, said staff will continue to work on the regulations as it considers refining the language in the text. She said such revisions may be needed ...
