Balancing budgets, careers and curveballs, SparkWheel’s student finance program lets kids step into the future and discover how quickly paychecks can disappear. The FutureNow: Finance program is an interactive workshop that SparkWheel hosts in collaboration with partner schools to help ...
A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple students at a Lawrence elementary school last winter has been ordered to stand trial on 14 felony counts. Douglas County Judge Amy Hanley, following a two-day preliminary hearing in October, ruled Thursday that probable cause existed for the ...
Melissa Clover, a fourth grade teacher at Deerfield Elementary School, was awarded the 2025 Dedication to Education Award during an all-school assembly on Monday. The Lawrence Schools Foundation presented the award along with a $5,000 check. The assembly on Monday morning for students and ...
A special Lawrence school board meeting will be held this week for the annual evaluation of Superintendent Jeanice Swift. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the district's Facilities and Operations Office, 711 E. 23rd St. In addition to the evaluation on Swift, there will also be ...
An arrest affidavit for a former award-winning paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district alleges that the para inappropriately touched a middle school boy, asked him to undress and gave him dozens of late-night car rides. Caleb Zachary Rahmeier, the former para who was honored in ...
After gathering feedback from families and staff last fall, the Lawrence school district has been streamlining and reducing the number of positions within the district. Superintendent Jeanice Swift said on Monday that as a part of this work, eight positions in the administrator group were ...