In efforts to help those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and their families, a University of Kansas student is working to get a new organization off the ground, and a group with quite a bit more experience under its belt wants Lawrence folks to know about its free resources. Factsheets from the national nonprofit Alzheimer’s Association, alz.org, say that one in 10 people age 65 and older has this ...
About two-thirds of 2018-19 Lawrence school district students are white, yet that population constitutes 85.8 percent of district staff. However, numbers from the district going back to the 2014-15 year show that diversity among district employees has been increasing — whites represented 89.2 percent of staff that year. The percentage of staff of color has increased 31.5 percent since the 2014 numbers. The ...
Student advocates in a Lawrence High School group met Sunday — for the first time since two students allegedly brought guns to the school recently — and discussed concerns about their school’s safety, communication and inconsistent procedures. Ten student members of SAFER, or Students Advocating Firearm Education & Reform, and the group’s adviser, Abby Gonzales Hoffman, came to the Lawrence Public ...
Lawrence school district staff will be compiling a lot of data in the coming days and weeks in hopes of starting to form solutions to safety issues in schools. In the wake of several weapon- and threat-related incidents at Lawrence schools over the past couple of weeks, district administrators held a community conversation on public safety that drew hundreds of parents, teachers, students and community members ...
Heartland Community Health Center has named a new CEO, roughly 11 months after its board of directors placed the organization’s previous leader on unpaid leave. Robyn Coventon comes to the center from another federally qualified health center in Oklahoma, according to a news release from the organization. She will join the clinic on March 4. “I am confident that we have found a leader of high integrity ...
After multiple weapons- and threat-related incidents in Lawrence schools over the past couple of weeks, Superintendent Anthony Lewis wants to talk with the community about options to address the problems. In summary, a Lawrence High School student allegedly brought a loaded gun to school on Feb. 6; a Southwest Middle School student on Feb. 11 reportedly threatened to shoot another student; another student ...