Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will hear a follow-up presentation on a remodel of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center that could cost more than $125 million.
The architecture firm overseeing the remodel, TreanorHL, has spent 10 months in the planning phase of a project aimed at expanding Douglas County’s courtroom space.
As the Journal-World reported in August, commissioners were presented ...
Liberty Memorial Central Middle School could switch to a special science, technology and arts curriculum in the future, but a district leader said Tuesday that officials aren't thinking of it as a "magnet school," and that there are definitely no plans to close it down, either.
At Tuesday's Lawrence school board meeting, Patrick Kelly, the district's chief academic officer, gave the board an update on plans to ...
The Lawrence school board on Tuesday is slated to hear a report on the possible reconfiguration of Liberty Memorial Central Middle School into more of a magnet school model — possibly one based on a STEAM curriculum, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics.
The board voted in February to repurpose the school beginning in the 2024-2025 school year with a to-be determined ...
A 38-year-old Perry man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder in connection with an alleged shooting that took place early Sunday morning in an industrial park in northern Lawrence.
The alleged incident is believed to be linked to an attempted-murder case from 2022, according to information obtained by the Journal-World from the Lawrence Police Department.
In an email to the ...
The Lawrence school district has purchased a new system that uses artificial intelligence to look for warning signs of "concerning behavior" in the things students type, send and search for on their district-issued computers and other such devices.
The purchase of the software system, called Gaggle, comes at a time when questions are growing about how artificial intelligence will affect people’s privacy. But ...
At a forum Saturday, nine candidates for the Lawrence school board told members of a staff union that raising wages would be a priority for them, and some of them said they knew firsthand the difference a raise can make for low-income workers.
The forum at the Lawrence Public Library, which was organized by the PAL-CWA staff union, was attended by nine of the 11 candidates for the school board elections: ...
