Dance teams from Sunflower Elementary came out on top during the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence’s annual talent show on Friday. The 2019 Lights On Talent Show included performances from teams representing 14 of the 15 Boys & Girls Club locations, according to a Boys & Girls Club ...
The Lawrence Police Department wants to provide more public education for the community, and it’s planning community conversations on big topics in the coming weeks to do that. The first event, slated for Tuesday, Oct. 22, will focus on internet safety for kids and teens. The second and ...
Three elementary schools on the west side of the Lawrence school district may be a little more tight on space than other schools for the 2019-2020 school year. At the same time, three elementary schools on the east side of the district are struggling to fill their buildings, with one school ...
Editor's note: The Journal-World asked the Lawrence school board candidates to provide brief statements outlining their vision for the school district. The candidates’ statements appear here as submitted, and have only been edited for spelling. Carole Cadue-Blackwood I would like to focus ...
Story updated at 4:40 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, 2019: The Lawrence school district saw a decrease of more than 180 students this school year compared with last year. But the drop in enrollment may not have an immediate effect on the school district’s state funding. The school district shared ...
For the musical duo Black Violin, Lawrence brings back a fond memory of a surprise reunion with an old mentor. Violinist Kevin Sylvester and violist Wilner Baptiste, or, as they like to be called, Kev Marcus and Wil B, have performed in Lawrence at least five times, Sylvester supposed. They ...
A $150,000 grant will soon allow the Lawrence school district to focus on improving its leadership qualities. The Kansas Leadership Center, a nonprofit organization that aims to foster better leadership in the state’s communities, announced Wednesday that the school district is one of 63 ...
Several parents of students at Pinckney Elementary School on Monday voiced frustration over the resignation of former principal Kristi Hill, suggesting that the school district did not provide her with enough support. Some of the parents who spoke to the board said Hill resigned because she ...
Kansas City, Mo. (ap) — Charles King remembers in his third year teaching a parent called him aside and told him to be more authentic, to let some of his roots show because the black students in that urban Houston school needed to know he was one of them. The encounter changed the way that ...
The construction company in charge of renovating Lawrence High School announced it is pushing back the completion dates for two phases of the project to make up for delays that occurred over the summer. “We have to make sure we do a really good job setting realistic expectations for the ...
Tuesday is the final day to register for the Nov. 5 election, which will decide who will serve on the Lawrence City Commission and the Lawrence school board, among other issues. Six candidates are running to fill three seats on the City Commission, and five candidates are running to fill four ...
The Lawrence school board will soon receive its first update on the progress of its new five-year strategic plan. Superintendent Anthony Lewis is scheduled to provide the update to the school board during its meeting Monday. The overall purpose of the strategic plan, which the board approved ...
Although the issue of school safety and security has long been a priority for the Lawrence school district, a recent event has again made it an important topic of conversation for candidates vying for a seat on the school board. But importance of a topic does not necessarily mean there will be ...
Local students of the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence will soon take the stage to show off their dance moves to the music of NSYNC and the Spice Girls during the organization’s annual talent show. The 2019 Lights On Talent Show show will have teams from all 15 Boys & Girls Club ...
Lawrence now has its own teenage environmental advocate calling for action to address climate change. But unlike Greta Thunberg — the Swedish girl who has traveled around the world to spread awareness about the dangers of global warming — Morgan Orozco, 16, said she was focused on her ...
Hundreds of Lawrence students are taking advantage of a program that allows them to take several college courses while they are still in high school. Superintendent Anthony Lewis said Monday that 316 high school students were currently enrolled in college courses offered through a partnership ...
Jordin Silver doesn’t want any kids to grow up the way she did: confused, alone, knowing she’d be more loved if she were more “normal.” “I’m 37, and gay was AIDS, gay was bad,” she said of her childhood in Old Orchard Beach, a small tourist town on the coast of Maine. “Life ...
The Lawrence Transit System is teaming up with the Lawrence Public Library to provide special “Books and Buses” storytimes. The collaboration between the library and the transit system will feature books about transportation, a bus-themed craft project and a trip on the bus, according to ...
The five candidates running for the four Lawrence school board positions on the Nov. 5 ballot shared their differing views on the challenges facing the school district, including the role that school resource officers should play, on Saturday at a forum sponsored by the Lawrence chapter of the ...
Kansas students could win an iPad or a Kindle for submitting their photography to the Kansas Historical Society's annual photo contest. Students from 1st through 12th grades are invited to submit up to five photographs to the contest that "tell a story about going to school in Kansas," ...