Starting Dec. 2, students making their way to school shouldn’t expect to see a crossing guard stationed at seven crossings added as pilot locations for the first half of the school year. The City of Lawrence announced late last week that the seven pilot crossing guard locations the city ...

GIRARD — Officials at R.V. Haderlein Elementary in Girard forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, despite objections that he grew it out to connect with his cultural heritage. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas warned the district in a letter Friday that the ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has opened civil rights investigations into seven schools and universities over allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The list includes three Ivy League institutions — Columbia, Cornell and the University ...

Updated at 11:06 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach recently endorsed a report from the state's Medicaid inspector general that could serve as a basis for increased scrutiny into the backgrounds of Kansas public school employees. Kobach said on Nov. 1 that he wanted ...

Veteran Lawrence school board member Shannon Kimball has accepted a position with the Kansas Association of School Boards as a government relations specialist. Lawrence school board President Kelly Jones announced Kimball's hiring during Monday night's board meeting. Kimball told the ...

The Lawrence school board on Monday joined other local governments in approving tax incentives for a project that would develop just under 50 units of affordable housing in downtown Lawrence for people 55 and older. The vote for the New Hampshire Lofts project passed 5-2, with Erica Hill and ...