Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area has joined a national historic network that will help highlight and spread the stories of the Reconstruction Era, a period following the American Civil War.
The National Park Service in 2019 created the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network to connect sites across the country that provide education, interpretation and research related to the period after the ...
Patients with disabilities often face barriers to health care, including inadequate facilities and biased treatment. A research group is hoping to change that.
Disability challenges are said to be rooted in "medical ableism" — a form of discrimination against people with disabilities that can negatively impact patient care. The Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies, or IHDPS, at the University of ...
To further integrate mental health and substance abuse disorder treatments into its primary care services, Heartland Community Health Center will be receiving more than a million dollars in federal funding from an initiative aiming to improve behavioral health care nationwide.
Heartland will be receiving $1.1 million over the course of two years from the Health Resources and Services Administration, or HRSA. ...
A nearly $3 million countywide effort to conserve open spaces and to promote access to nature is starting to show results, with some of the first becoming visible at the county-owned Lone Star State Park.
Work is underway at Lone Star — a state park featuring a 185-acre lake located about 30 minutes southwest of Lawrence — with construction beginning on a new kayak launch facility.
Lone Star ...
After hearing the district's newly drafted high school cellphone policy, Lawrence school board members agreed phones should be out of sight, silent, and not disrupt class, though opinions differed on whether the proposed policy was just rehashing the current one, and there was some confusion about its scope.
The current policy in place for cellphones at the high school level says phones should be “put away ...
After concerns from educators and parents about the district’s cellphone policy and its impact on student learning, the Lawrence school board will review a new policy that would make high schools phone-free during school hours, with some exceptions.
On Monday, school board members will review a policy that says phones will be "turned off and stored out of sight at all times during school hours." The policy, ...
