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 ...
Have a closing, cancellation or postponement to report? Please email it to closings@ljworld.com. The following will be closed Friday, Jan. 17. Last updated: 11:26 p.m. Thursday • University of Kansas - Lawrence, Edwards and Leavenworth campuses. • Lawrence public school district USD ...
A Douglas County high school student has been selected as a delegate for the United States Senate Youth Program. Benjamin Sah Jin Willits Posch, a senior at Eudora High School, is one of two Kansas students selected to join the program's 104-student delegation, the Kansas State Department of ...
A student was arrested Tuesday morning at Lawrence High School on suspicion of battery on a law enforcement officer, police say. Just before 9 a.m., school resource officers responded to a disturbance reported by school staff, Lawrence Police Department spokesman Patrick Compton said via ...
The Lawrence school district has selected a new principal for Pinckney Elementary School. Miah Lugrand, who is currently the assistant principal for Wheatley Elementary School in the Kansas City, Mo., school district, will take over the position on July 1, Superintendent Anthony Lewis ...
A new majority has officially taken over the Lawrence school board. During the board’s meeting on Monday, Carole Cadue-Blackwood, Erica Hill and Paula Smith were sworn into their positions by Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew. Along with board President Melissa Johnson, the three new members ...
Three new faces will soon officially take their positions on the Lawrence school board. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew will swear in recently elected members Erica Hill, Carole Cadue-Blackwood and Paula Smith during the board’s first meeting of 2020 on Monday. The new board members will ...
Have a closing, cancellation or postponement to report? Please email it to closings@ljworld.com. The following will be closed Monday, Jan. 13. Last updated: 9:34 p.m. Sunday • McLouth USD No. 342
A graduate of Lawrence High School and the University of Kansas will be one of three moderators during an upcoming debate among Democratic candidates for the U.S. presidency. Brianne Pfannenstiel, the chief political reporter for the Des Moines Register, will join CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Abby ...
During a surprise phone call earlier this week, a Lawrence middle school teacher learned that he is considered one of the best new educators in the state. Chad Aberle, a second-year science teacher at West Middle School, was surprised with the 2020 Kansas Horizon Award on Tuesday when he ...
The Lawrence school board wants the Kansas Legislature this year to consider adding new gun control measures and making it harder for students to access tobacco products. In its priority list for the 2020 legislative session, the school board said it wants Kansas lawmakers to consider those ...
Story updated at 5:13 p.m. Wednesday: A student brought a firearm to Lawrence High School on Wednesday, according to a news release from the school district. LHS administrators worked with Lawrence police to investigate a student’s report that another student may have brought a weapon to ...
With the help of Lawrence Mayor Jennifer Ananda, faculty members of Billy Mills Middle School prepared for the spring semester by reminding themselves why they teach. Ananda, who served as a guest speaker for the teachers’ first day back to school on Monday, set an example for them by ...
Kansas educators want lawmakers to act on health care, vaping and college credits when the Legislature convenes later this month. For more than a decade, the school funding battle has dominated any conversation about education in Topeka. But with a school funding plan in place, educators are ...
The debate program at Lawrence's Bishop Seabury Academy is taking a record number of participants to the state tournament next month, team sponsor Pete Akers said. The program’s four-speaker team came in third place at the Silver Lake regional held Dec. 20-21, according to the Kansas State ...
Eudora High School’s girls basketball team will no longer be coached by Richard Ebel. Ebel, who was the Journal-World’s All-Area Coach of the Year in 2019, said Monday that the school district’s administration recently removed him as head coach of the team. The midseason move came ...
Members of Free State High School’s debate program had their work cut out for them this weekend when they faced the juggernaut of Washburn Rural High School, Coach Kelly Thompson told the Journal-World on Monday. Although they couldn’t best the defending three-time state champions from ...
When Kelli and Justin Bates’ son Darby, a student at Pinckney Elementary School, was diagnosed with a terminal disease in 2018, doctors could only help by providing a list of vitamins for the boy to take. But Jessica Rohrberg, a physical therapist for the school district, immediately acted ...