Four Free State High School students qualified to attend the flagship conference of DECA, which prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in areas like marketing, finance and management. The students who attended DECA’s International Career Development Conference on April 25-28 include ...
On an April afternoon in Lawrence, Kansas, where abolitionists and pro-slavery forces clashed over a century and a half earlier, Billy Mills Middle School teacher Tom Barker introduced students to a central figure in that bloody era of local history. “John Brown. There’s a lot of stuff ...
The Lawrence school district has announced the new College and Career Center principal, Amanda Faunce. Faunce will begin serving in the position on July 1. She has been the associate principal of Free State High School since 2022 after being the school's athletic director for four years, ...
Lawrence school board members approved a bus services contract on Monday with a new provider that will cost the district about $7 million in the upcoming school year. The vote was unanimous – with board members Shannon Kimball and Carole Cadue-Blackwood absent – for the three-year ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas task force is running out of time to craft a new public school funding formula, which the Legislature and the state’s next governor must agree upon before the current framework expires. Previous plans have violated the state constitution, per Kansas Supreme Court ...
The community is invited to a town hall meeting in May regarding risks and challenges faced by local youth. The event is hosted by Engage Douglas County, a coalition focused on preventing substance misuse and promoting mental health with a primary emphasis on youth under 18. Students, ...