Sweeping changes stemming from the state’s 2016 reform of juvenile justice are calling into question the future of the Douglas County Juvenile Detention Center and the adjacent day school for at-risk students, said Pam Weigand, director of Douglas County Criminal Justice Services. The state in the 2016 legislative session enacted juvenile justice reforms that were meant to reduce the number of youths in ...
Superintendent Anthony Lewis and administrative staffers told the Lawrence school board Monday that the district is looking to improve the performance of minority students by holding principals accountable to be instructional leaders and through the use of data to identify where students are struggling. That discussion came after Terry McEwen, district director of assessment, research and accountability, ...
District staff will present to the Lawrence school board on Monday the results of state assessments that students took last spring. In a report to the board, Terry McEwen, district director of assessment, research and accountability, wrote that the results will reflect math, English language arts, science and history/government/social studies assessments the students took in the spring. McEwen did not provide ...
There was unanimous agreement on the need to expand Medicaid in the state at a Sunday forum for the two contested races for Douglas County-area Kansas House seats. Candidates to represent the 45th District of extreme west Lawrence, Lecompton and western rural areas of the county, and the 42nd District, which includes Eudora, Tonganoxie and other sections of southwest Leavenworth County, participated in a ...
The temperatures were a bit chilly for Saturday's 100th anniversary celebration of Lawrence's oldest active Boy Scout troop, but that didn't bother Boy Scout Dillon Genicke. In fact, the weather was ideal for roasting marshmallows, he said. Dillon, 11, kept busy toasting treats for those visiting the west campus of Lawrence United Methodist Church for Lawrence Boy Scout Troop 52's big bash. His station was one ...
Lawrence’s city leaders resolved Tuesday to do further research into a unified city-county government, but a day later, Douglas County commissioners restated that they were not interested in the idea of unification. The Lawrence City Commission, whose members had first brought up the topic with county commissioners at a Sept. 19 joint meeting of local governing bodies, discussed the issue again during its ...