Story updated at 2:49 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13:
The Lawrence area had about 100 fewer people experiencing unsheltered homelessness on the night of the annual point-in-time homeless count than it did last year, according to unverified figures released by the City of Lawrence on Thursday morning.
The results are a “promising shift … in our efforts to end chronic homelessness in this community,” Misty ...
The Lawrence school board held a special meeting on Tuesday — consisting of two closed executive sessions with no action afterward — to discuss its superintendent search with its search committee and search firm, the Kansas Association of School Boards.
Britton Hart from KASB had previously informed the board in January that he would meet with them on Feb. 12 to discuss candidates for the permanent ...
Frequent public commenter Michael Eravi stood before the Lawrence school board and spoke for 53 seconds before board President Kelly Jones paused his time on Monday night. Eravi had called the board’s enforcement of the public comment policy, which doesn’t allow for disruptive, foul or obscene language, “bull----,” prompting the board to encourage him to follow the policy regardless.
That didn’t ...
Lawrence school board members will explore enrollment and class sizes while gathering data as a part of the district's equity initiative to help all students graduate prepared for success.
On Monday, school board members received a report outlining the elements to be included in the upcoming equity reporting cycle. This cycle is part of the district's ongoing equity efforts to establish a process for reporting ...
They say they're "not experts yet" in artificial intelligence, but Lawrence Dao and Daniel Dao think they're not alone — and that there's a market for teaching kids about these powerful electronic tools.
The two Lawrence Virtual School students — Lawrence is in ninth grade and Daniel in seventh — have thought up a company called "Don't Panic AI Tutors," which would teach K-12 students about topics like AI ...
Lawrence school board members will hear an update from district staff on Monday about how new restrictions on cellphone use have been implemented in Lawrence’s high schools.
As the Journal-World has reported, school board members approved a new cellphone policy for high school students which banned their use during instructional time, and it went into effect in January. The goal of the policy was to improve ...
