The Lawrence school district now has a strategic plan. The Lawrence school board on Monday unanimously gave final approval to a five-year strategic plan that will kick off during the upcoming 2019-2020 school year. The plan includes five strategic themes that aim to improve academic outcomes ...
City, county and school district leaders say they want to work together in their efforts to address equity issues in the community, and they took a first step toward doing so Monday. Elected leaders and officials from the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and the Lawrence school district met ...
TOPEKA — Kansas education officials are raising pay and fast-tracking various teaching professionals in a two-pronged effort aimed at combating teacher shortages. Last year, Kansas schools had more than 600 vacant positions, many in rural areas and the state’s most urban districts. Low pay ...
The Lawrence school board at its Monday meeting will consider extending Superintendent Anthony Lewis’ contract. Lewis has served as the superintendent since July 2018. The board will evaluate Lewis’ performance during his first year in charge of the district, then will consider extending ...
Updated at 5:31 p.m. Friday The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state’s newest education funding plan is constitutional, seemingly bringing an end to an almost decade-long fight over the adequacy of K-12 funding. But the justices are refusing to relinquish jurisdiction over the ...
TOPEKA — Kansas officials want to put the brakes on vaping in public schools as usage soars. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas State Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to launch an anti-vaping campaign. Officials say local school boards need to amend student codes ...
Students at Lawrence middle schools will have new athletic activities to pursue next school year. The Lawrence school board approved with a 5-0 vote to reinstate seventh grade boys and girls basketball and to begin offering seventh and eighth grade boys and girls cross-country at each district ...
Thirteen-year-old Rose Kennedy just got her first cellphone, a long-promised present for completing the seventh grade. Soon, she’ll undoubtedly be talented at “writing” with her thumbs, although that’s not a talent likely to win her a national award the way her cursive writing ...
Three of four incumbent members of the Lawrence school board whose terms are expiring will not run for reelection this year. The four-year terms of Board President Jessica Beeson and board members Jill Fincher, Rick Ingram and Shannon Kimball will end in January. Kimball, the only incumbent ...
A local proponent of equity in the field of health care has filed to run for the Lawrence school board. Erica Hill, 39, is finance and operations manager for the LMH Health Foundation and health equity advocate with LMH Health. She said she wants to address district issues and policies ...
Emerging from his basement to find large portions of his home destroyed by an EF-4 tornado, Lawrence High School senior Daniel Davidson notified his yearbook teacher, Barbara Tholen, that he would be unable to help finish the spring section. While brainstorming how to help Davidson, Tholen said ...
Three Lawrence high school students will pilot a leadership program this summer at LMH Health that takes aim at big issues of health disparities and inequities. A partnership with the Lawrence school district, the LMH Health Summer Leadership Academy intends to build a workforce that includes ...
The community engagement and volunteer director for the United Way of Douglas County has filed to run for the Lawrence school board. Paula Smith said she believed her experience, both in her career and as a parent, would be beneficial to the board. She wants to improve outcomes for all ...
Instead of meeting as two sides negotiating a contentious deal, Lawrence school district leaders and the Lawrence Education Association have begun creating a new teachers contract as one large group. District administrators and members of the local teachers union met Thursday for the first of ...
Lawrence school board members approved the resignation of a top district administrator during a brief meeting Tuesday after a tornado struck Douglas County. Kyle Hayden, the district’s chief operations officer, has accepted a position as chief finance and operations officer for the Blue ...
Lawrence middle school athletic directors and coaches are asking the district to bring back one sport and add another, according to information in the school board’s meeting agenda. The district cut the middle school athletics budget in the 2002-2003 year, according to the agenda materials. ...
Lawrence school district administrators and the Lawrence Education Association (LEA) will follow a new format for contract negotiations this year, and they’ve planned 28 hours’ worth of meetings. District spokeswoman Julie Boyle said via email that the negotiation teams have been trained ...
A Lawrence activist who has championed causes including education, civic engagement and health care has filed to run for the Lawrence school board. Thea Perry, 37, said that in addition to meeting the needs of all students and closing achievement and discipline gaps for underserved ...
Shannon Kimball is seeking her third term as a member of the Lawrence school board — an office she’d like to hold alongside her upcoming role as president of the Kansas Association of School Boards. Kimball began her first term in July 2011. She said some of her proudest accomplishments ...
Bishop Seabury Academy sent off its Class of 2019 at the school's commencement ceremony Friday morning. The class includes 28 seniors who, between them, have received more than $6.4 million worth of scholarship offers, a school spokeswoman said. Margie Lawrence, media coordinator for the ...