More than 900 licensed educators and hundreds of paraeducators in the Lawrence school district will head to class Tuesday, giving their more than 11,000 students a longer holiday weekend.Some parents may be frustrated by the students’ additional time off school, but administrators maintain ...
I’m working on a story about Standards Based Progress Reports, the documents used in the Lawrence school district to track student performance in grades K-6.Translation: Report cards.But these report cards aren’t like the traditional ones many oldsters remember. In grades K-3, for example, ...
The school year’s just a few days old, but leaders of the Lawrence Schools Foundation already have their eyes set on easing financial pains for teachers and their students come mid-year.During the Community Education Breakfast last Friday, foundation leaders placed yellow cups at each of the ...
A state investigation continues into whether Kansas State University’s online merchandise store is skirting sales tax law, and now some state legislators also are beginning to question KSU’s online practices. In early August, the Journal-World reported that purchases made by Kansas ...
Funny how one guy can run an investment firm with more than $200 billion under management and be introduced by another guy who’s coached one of the country’s top college basketball programs to a national championship, and they still can be upstaged somewhat by a high school senior.Welcome ...
Public education advocates painted a bleak picture of funding trends for education in the state during a public forum Saturday at Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.“It’s very gloomy,” said Mark Desetti, director of legislative and policy advocacy for the Kansas National Education ...
When the day comes that James Naismith’s original typewritten rules of “Basket Ball” find their home at Kansas University, transforming Allen Fieldhouse into a year-round attraction and boosting its stature as a recruiting tool both for basketball players and students and employees, folks ...
The Lawrence school district has hired two administrators from Kansas University to lead 26 volunteers and others through a six-month process to recommend how to shrink the district’s number of elementary schools.The administrators — Marilu Goodyear, director of KU’s School of Public ...
With Gov. Sam Brownback contemplating cuts in the state income tax and making other potential changes in revenue sources, Democrats are organizing a forum to consider how such efforts might drain state financing for public schools.And they’ll convene in one of the two counties statewide that ...
Efforts to begin contemplating ways for consolidating elementary schools in the Lawrence school district will have to wait another week.The first working meeting for the district’s Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group has been rescheduled. Instead of ...
Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little surprised Joey Sprague, professor of sociology, with a Kemper Fellowship on Thursday.Sprague is the sixth professor on the Lawrence campus to receive the award recognizing excellence in teaching this year. She has been a member of the KU ...
Bill Self will introduce him.Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little will listen to him.And at least 550 others will be in the audience to hear from David Booth, keynote speaker for the Community Education Breakfast, set for 7:30 a.m. Friday at the Holiday Inn Lawrence, 200 McDonald ...
Athletics rosters are expanding with young talent at Free State and Lawrence high schools, now that freshmen are enrolled for the first time as full-fledged high schoolers.As both schools open their athletics seasons this week — the Lions fielded their Fall Sports Jamboree on Wednesday night, ...
We’re still looking for questions we could pose to David Booth, who is coming to Lawrence to be keynote speaker for the Community Education Breakfast this Friday a the Holiday Inn Lawrence, 200 McDonald Drive.Here’s the deal: Booth is a 1964 graduate of Lawrence High School, is chairman ...
Nyle Anderson hears plenty of whispers — some louder than others — in the halls of Free State High School.Freshmen are too small to be here.Freshmen are too young to be here.Freshmen are too immature to be here.He refuses to accept such nonsense, of course, but there is one complaint ...
David Booth graduated from Lawrence High School, runs a company with billions of dollars under management, and last year dropped $4.33 million on a couple of pieces of paper that just happen to contain the original rules of “Basket Ball,” signed by none other than James Naismith.And because ...
The Lawrence school district is on track to assemble an array of experts to provide advice in budgeting, facilities planning and possibly other complicated and far-reaching topics and issues that require spending money or otherwise allocating valuable resources and attention.And, as school ...
Already faced with a list of repair, renovation and reconstruction projects expected to cost more than $10 million, members of the Lawrence school board know they’ll face difficult decisions in the months and years ahead when it comes to upgrading the district’s elementary schools.Monday ...
Power flashes and other power disruption have led to problems in with the air conditioners at three schools in Lawrence, the Lawrence school district announced Friday.At New York School, there is a partial air conditioning outage and a total phone service outage. Broken Arrow and South Middle ...
Dozens of students have traversed the world’s largest ocean to bring two communities closer together during the past two decades.But two Lawrencians are unequaled in their family approach to the sister city relationship between Lawrence and Hiratsuka, Japan.Layla McEniry and her daughter ...