A special two-person team with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical will soon start visiting some frequent users of emergency medical services, offering them resources and education that might reduce how often they have to call for help.
It's called the Mobile Integrated Health Team, and LDCFM Chief Rich Llewellyn and Division Chief Kevin Joles gave Douglas County commissioners an overview of it during a work ...
As part of its annual self-evaluation survey, the Lawrence school board on Tuesday said it was pleased with how it communicated with the community on contentious issues like school closures.
But board members said they still have work to do on other tough issues, including figuring out ways to make the district’s activities and events more representative of the entire student body.
School board member ...
West Middle School paraprofessional Caleb Rahmeier on Tuesday was honored as this year’s recipient of the Lawrence Schools Foundation’s “Dedication to Education” award.
The award is given each year to a teacher or paraeducator who goes out of his or her way to help "challenged and/or disadvantaged students," according to a statement from the Lawrence Schools Foundation, and it comes with a $5,000 ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will receive an update on this year's operations and the outlook for 2024 for the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical department, which receives millions of dollars of county funding toward its operations.
A large portion of the fire and medical department budget is funded by the city of Lawrence to pay for firefighting services the department provides inside the city ...
Insufficient training caused Lawrence school district staff to be unprepared and overwhelmed by a new program that monitors students’ computer usage for unsafe behaviors, according to Superintendent Anthony Lewis and school board member Ronald “G.R.” Gordon-Ross.
During the Dec. 11 school board meeting, Lewis said that issues have arisen following the recent rollout of Gaggle, a software system that uses ...
Before enrolling at the Lawrence College and Career Academy, Soleil Cummins-Grinnell had reached a point in her academic career where she "could not imagine a future for herself."
By the time she reached high school, the sophomore said at the Dec. 11 Lawrence school board meeting, she felt "burned out" and like "an empty shell" of herself. She said she couldn't even envision herself going to college in the ...
