Here is the list of scholarship winners from Lawrence High School, as compiled by the school: Jamie Abernathy: Loyola University Athletic Scholarship Katie Ahern: Lawrence Lions Alumni Association Scholarship, University of Kansas Crimson & Blue Scholarship Chisom Ajekwu- Kansas ...
For Anita Musick, seeing her granddaughter graduate from high school was going to be especially sweet. Seventeen-year-old Aftyn Hankins had had a sad and troubled childhood, and she had bounced around a handful of area schools. Her experiences had left her “rough around the edges," her ...
Lawrence High School Principal Matt Brungardt is resigning after 16 years with the school, the district announced in a news release Wednesday. Brungardt has accepted a position as principal of his alma mater, Salina Central High, according to the release. His youngest son is graduating from ...
Updated at 2:42 p.m. Monday The Lawrence school district is investigating possible carbon monoxide exposure at Kennedy Elementary School that may have affected the health of at least two staff members. The two employees informed the district that they had tested positive for elevated carbon ...
Gracie Flanagan was having so much fun Wednesday morning running in the triathlon at Lawrence High School that she crossed the finish line three times. Flanagan, 17, was one of about 45 secondary adaptive physical education students in the Lawrence school district competing in the event, which ...
At the end of Kansas’ next high school wrestling season, there will — for the first time — be an officially sanctioned state tournament for girls only. The Kansas State High School Activities Association board on Friday voted 63 to 2 to support adding the sport, KSHSAA executive director ...
Lawrence High School choir students were busy rehearing Wednesday for their annual "Showtime" performance. The show takes place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the Lawrence High School auditorium.
District staff is still researching some potential security measures to improve school safety, but some board members have already made it clear that staff shouldn’t waste too much time on metal detectors. Ron May, director of operations, gave the board a presentation on safety and security ...
A presentation on active shooter training, building security, mental health and social/emotional supports tops the Lawrence school board’s agenda for its Monday meeting. According to a board agenda item, Ron May, district director of operations, and Jose Cornejo, mental health facilitator, ...
WICHITA — A new Kansas law will reduce the number of required safety drills in public and private schools only a year after lawmakers mandated crisis drills to prepare students for active shooters and other threats. Wichita public radio station KMUW reports that the measure recently signed ...
Madyson Gray’s first wrestling season was spent, as her dad puts it, “basically getting her head pounded into the mat relentlessly.” She lost almost every match. “It hurt to watch, you know?” Darin Gray said. “I thought she was done.” But Mady didn’t want to quit and find a ...
The Lawrence school district has been approved to participate in the Kansas State Department of Education’s redesign project, the district announced Tuesday. Teachers at Broken Arrow, Deerfield and Hillcrest elementaries and Free State High School voted in March to apply for the Apollo ...
TOPEKA — Lawyers for Kansas told the state Supreme Court on Monday that it should sign off on a new law boosting spending on public schools and end a protracted education funding lawsuit partly because the law has broad, bipartisan support. Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican, filed ...
Following a big weekend in the world of forensics, Lawrence and Free State high schools are both sending several students to nationals this June. Free State won the overall championship at the East Kansas District Tournament, held Friday and Saturday. FSHS also took first in the Debate ...
The Eudora City Commission and school district have agreed to address the top safety concern of parents of Eudora students. Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin said that district parents identified the need for a greater police presence in Eudora schools as their top safety concern in meetings the ...
Story updated at 5:44 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 2019: A Lawrence middle schooler has been criminally charged in connection with last week’s report that he threatened on social media to bring guns to school and shoot people. The boy has been charged as a juvenile with one count of criminal ...
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard, who is most famous for discovering the wreckage of the Titanic, on Tuesday visited West Middle School, Liberty Memorial Central Middle School and Lawrence High School. Ballard, who was born in Kansas, spoke to the students about his career and answered questions ...
The school finance bill that the Kansas Legislature passed and Gov. Laura Kelly signed on Saturday would add about $3.85 million to the Lawrence school district’s funding next year. However, Kathy Johnson, the district’s executive director of finance, told the school board Monday evening ...
A Eudora activist for education is the first candidate from Baldwin City or Eudora to file for any of the city government or school board contests to be held this year. Becky Plate filed April 1 for one of four at-large seats on the Eudora school board that expire this year. Plate, a ...