Lawrence school board member Shannon Kimball was taken by surprise when she heard complaints from constituents about changes coming this fall to middle school schedules.
“When this plan was ready to be talked about publicly, I didn't hear about it from you all — I heard about it from an email from somebody else who was angry and I had to reply to them that I'm sorry, but this is the first time I've heard ...
Students in Lawrence middle and high schools can take their devices home for the summer, beginning this year.
On Monday, school board members will hear a report from the staff behind that effort and consider requests to replace about $278,500 in accessories.
The district rolled out 1:1 iPads in the middle schools in August 2016, and 1:1 MacBooks at the high schools in August 2017, according to agenda ...
District leaders are hopeful that students who take their devices home after the last class ends in May will say more than “Great, Netflix all summer.”
Lawrence school board members — including Rick Ingram, who voiced that concern at the Monday meeting — agreed they’d like to see students use the devices for academic enrichment over the summer. That said, they supported that idea and approved the ...
Librarians at Pinckney and Cordley elementary schools in Lawrence have accepted a challenge that could garner up to $9,000 for new books and materials in their respective libraries.
The Lawrence-based Northeast Kansas Library System, or NEKLS, announced Thursday that it has selected the two schools in town, along with six others in the region, to participate in a grant program. Put simply, the goal is to ...
It might not be long before the bubble around Douglas County employees’ “extremely low deductible” health insurance plan bursts.
As county commissioners begin to wade into their 2020 budget process, the insurance concern looms on a slightly less distant horizon than the decisions that await them this summer.
Interim County Administrator Sarah Plinsky said she brings the commission a recommendation on ...
Though Douglas County Commissioners appreciated his honesty, that’s ultimately what led them to defer a request from Rich Eckert, of Bettis Asphalt.
Eckert, general counsel for the company, had come to the commission’s meeting on Wednesday with a request for a temporary business permit to put a portable asphalt batch plant at 1454 East 2300 Road.
The plant would support a Kansas Department of ...
