Bishop Seabury Academy’s Academic WorldQuest team is heading off to nationals this spring. The school’s team finished first at the Kansas City, Mo., regional, which was held this week at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said Leslie McCaffrey, admissions director for Bishop Seabury. ...
Solving water scarcity is not an easy task, but students at Lawrence's Southwest Middle School were recognized this week for envisioning a solution to that problem in the future. A group of Southwest students known as Team Lima placed second in the Future City national competition, which was ...
A feel-good comedy musical will be making its world premiere in a Lawrence middle school this week. West Middle School will be the first school in the world to perform a junior version of the musical adaptation of “Sister Act,” according to Music Theatre International, the company which ...
Have a closing, cancellation or postponement to report? Please email it to closings@ljworld.com. Last updated: 8:10 a.m. Thursday • Lawrence, Edwards and Leavenworth campuses of the University of Kansas will not open until 9 a.m. • Lawrence school district USD 497 will be closed. • ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday hired two principals who will join the district at the beginning of the next school year. During the board’s meeting, Superintendent Anthony Lewis introduced Anne Hawks and James Polk as the newly selected principals for Liberty Memorial Central Middle ...
The Lawrence school board will receive an update on the progress of some of the goals of its strategic plan during its meeting Monday. Zach Conrad, the school district's executive director of research, evaluation and accountability, is expected to report to the board the Lawrence student ...
While standing in a newly renovated classroom on the second floor of Lawrence High School, school board member Carole Cadue-Blackwood said it felt like she was somewhere else. “It’s like a treehouse,” Cadue-Blackwood said, looking out large windows into the trees surrounding the school. ...
Broken Arrow Elementary School will have a new leader next school year. The Lawrence school district announced in a news release this week that Brian McCaffrey, current principal of the school, plans to retire effective June 30, pending Lawrence school board approval. The district said it ...
Many Lawrence students were likely among the thousands of fans attending the Chiefs parade. The Lawrence school district counted a total of 2,213 excused absences on Wednesday, Julie Boyle, a spokeswoman for the district told the Journal-World. Of those students, 941 of them were Free State ...
If the Lawrence school district wants to close academic achievement gaps among students, it needs to address certain barriers, Lawrence high school students recently told Superintendent Anthony Lewis. One barrier is racial representation among the district's faculty. After discussing how ...
After accepting the first-place trophy for the 2020 Douglas County Spelling Bee, Charlie Maples said winning the annual contest wasn’t his only notable accomplishment Saturday on the stage at Southwest Middle School. “I also set a personal heart-rate record of 247,” the Deerfield ...
A Free State High School senior was named the Lawrence community’s top teen during a ceremony at Liberty Hall on Thursday. After she gave an emotional speech, Allie Martinez was announced as the winner of the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence’s 2020 Youth of the Year award, according to a ...
TOPEKA — Conservative Republicans are pushing for a law requiring government buildings and schools across Kansas to post the national motto of “In God We Trust,” an idea critics say is part of a broader effort by the Christian right to promote its religious beliefs in public life. A ...
Story updated at 4:43 p.m. Wednesday: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States remains at five, according to numbers the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated Wednesday. The site still lists Kansas as having no confirmed cases of the virus. The Journal-World ...
When it comes to school resource officers in Lawrence schools, Superintendent Anthony Lewis said he will not tolerate any racial profiling of students. But the school district may need to take steps to make sure that doesn’t happen, he said Monday at the school board’s meeting. Those steps ...
The Lawrence school board will soon learn how much it may cost to keep its school resource officer program. The board on Monday will receive a report about the Lawrence Police Department program that puts officers in schools, including how much it would potentially cost the school district to ...
A Douglas County high school student has been rewarded for his academic excellence in the face of adversity. Connor Schmidt, a senior at Eudora High School, was selected as one of the 106 high school students across the nation to earn the 2020 Horatio Alger National Scholarship, according to a ...
Have a closing, cancellation or postponement to report? Please email it to closings@ljworld.com. Last updated: 5:53 a.m. Friday • McLouth public school district USD 342 will be closed. • The University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses will delay opening until 9 a.m.
Three Lawrence high school students will soon take the stage to make their case for being a top teen in the community. The Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence recently named Akosua Danso, Clay LaPierre and Allie Martinez as the finalists for the 2020 Youth of the Year competition, according to a ...
After a gun incident was reported at Lawrence High School last week — the third in the past 12 months — students voiced their concerns during a round-table discussion on Thursday. One worry that the dozen or so students shared: that guns at school are becoming more routine. “It pissed ...