It takes a lot to build a championship team — let alone a dynasty. And that's the case whether you're in the Super Bowl or in Scholars Bowl. And while Eudora High School teacher Jim Barnard chuckles at his Scholars Bowl team being called a “dynasty,” he's seen more consistent success in ...

Lawrence Public Schools will soon launch its new Choice Campus at Centennial, offering high school students a flexible, come-and-go learning environment designed to personalize education around individual needs. “It’s a place to go to, but without the constriction of the four walls of a ...

Approximately 100 people gathered in downtown Lawrence Tuesday afternoon to protest the Trump administration and actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The protestors gathered at the four corners of Ninth and Massachusetts Street around 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Several in the ...

Lawrence school board members at their meeting on Monday approved a construction bid for updates to the district’s middle school theaters. The bid came from BHS Construction Inc. in the amount of $522,100 along with a 10% contingency not to exceed $52,210. The updates are a result of ...

In a lawsuit filed over the school district’s use of the monitoring software Gaggle, students are seeking a court ruling for the district to respond to open-records requests about the new ManagedMethods software. The plaintiffs alleged that the Lawrence school district failed to timely and ...

A Lawrence Virtual School student has won the Douglas County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge for the second year in a row. The Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge is an annual competition for students in grades 6-12 in Douglas County where students pitch business ideas, including a written plan, ...