A few education-oriented items from around the area and elsewhere:

Lawrence school district staffers will take to the stage tonight at Liberty Hall for the 21st annual Foundation Follies.

The event starts at 7 p.m. with a social hour and barbecue meal at Liberty Hall, 644 Mass. The show starts at 8 p.m.

Reservations are $25 for district staff and $35 for the general public. Walk-ups are welcome.

Proceeds go to the Lawrence Schools Foundation.

For more information, contact the foundation office at 330-2790.

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Students in the agricultural education program and FFA at Free State High School are preparing to sell off the fruits — OK, plants — of their labor, and the public is invited to help out.

The fourth-annual Free State Plant Sale is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Eastside Greenhouse at the school, 4700 Overland Drive.

Organizers note that the sale is “just in time for Mother’s Day.”

“We have a variety of annuals, house plants, and vegetables to choose from,” said Laura Priest, Free State’s agriculture education teacher. “Help support agriculture education and come see what we’ve grown!”

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One of my esteemed colleagues, Andy “Heard on the Hill” Hyland, points out that Kansas University’s next student body president is a Lawrence Lion.

Libby Johnson, a KU senior, won election Thursday on the KUnited ticket.