While fielding questions as part of a public interview process to lead the Montgomery, Alabama, school district, Lawrence schools superintendent Anthony Lewis spoke to his experience in the Lawrence district, including the ongoing budget-cutting process.
Lewis is one of four remaining finalists to become the superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools, and the Montgomery district posted video recordings of the ...
The Lawrence school board has approved a proposal to create multigrade elementary classrooms, meaning some students will be placed in classrooms alongside students a grade above or below them next school year.
Multigrade classrooms were one of 20 budget measures that the school board approved March 28 as part of its effort to address a more than $6 million budget shortfall for next school year. The multigrade ...
After being in place three years, a controversial policy that generally requires property owners to pay for repairs to sidewalks bordering their homes and businesses could potentially see some changes.
Though clear differences of opinion existed among the Lawrence City Commission members, commissioners directed city staff as part of their meeting Tuesday to develop a plan to gather public input regarding how ...
City leaders have approved a rezoning request that will allow for a restaurant to locate in an old East Lawrence industrial building along Eighth Street, but have not granted the developer’s request to increase the level of alcohol sales allowed as part of the rezoning.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 5-0 to approve a request to rezone approximately 2.10 acres at 620 E. ...
Lawrence city leaders are set to discuss the city’s controversial sidewalk policy that generally requires property owners, not the city, to pay for repairs to sidewalks bordering their homes and businesses.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive a staff presentation about the city’s sidewalk repair policy and related financial assistance program, and respond to ...
Story updated at 5:27 p.m. Monday:
The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to help return a sacred prayer rock to the Kaw Nation that was stolen from the tribe’s homelands nearly a century ago.
The Mellon Foundation announced in a news release on Monday that it had awarded the grant to pay for the return of In ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe, a 28-ton red Siouxan quartzite boulder, which has been ...
