The community engagement and volunteer director for the United Way of Douglas County has filed to run for the Lawrence school board. Paula Smith said she believed her experience, both in her career and as a parent, would be beneficial to the board. She wants to improve outcomes for all ...
Instead of meeting as two sides negotiating a contentious deal, Lawrence school district leaders and the Lawrence Education Association have begun creating a new teachers contract as one large group. District administrators and members of the local teachers union met Thursday for the first of ...
Lawrence school board members approved the resignation of a top district administrator during a brief meeting Tuesday after a tornado struck Douglas County. Kyle Hayden, the district’s chief operations officer, has accepted a position as chief finance and operations officer for the Blue ...
Lawrence middle school athletic directors and coaches are asking the district to bring back one sport and add another, according to information in the school board’s meeting agenda. The district cut the middle school athletics budget in the 2002-2003 year, according to the agenda materials. ...
Lawrence school district administrators and the Lawrence Education Association (LEA) will follow a new format for contract negotiations this year, and they’ve planned 28 hours’ worth of meetings. District spokeswoman Julie Boyle said via email that the negotiation teams have been trained ...
A Lawrence activist who has championed causes including education, civic engagement and health care has filed to run for the Lawrence school board. Thea Perry, 37, said that in addition to meeting the needs of all students and closing achievement and discipline gaps for underserved ...
Shannon Kimball is seeking her third term as a member of the Lawrence school board — an office she’d like to hold alongside her upcoming role as president of the Kansas Association of School Boards. Kimball began her first term in July 2011. She said some of her proudest accomplishments ...
Bishop Seabury Academy sent off its Class of 2019 at the school's commencement ceremony Friday morning. The class includes 28 seniors who, between them, have received more than $6.4 million worth of scholarship offers, a school spokeswoman said. Margie Lawrence, media coordinator for the ...
Carole Cadue-Blackwood, who successfully led the effort to change the name of a Lawrence middle school to honor Native American heritage, has filed to run for the school board. If elected, she said she hopes to continue to address achievement gaps between races and ethnicities in Lawrence ...
As he lined up Wednesday with his Free State High School classmates minutes before their commencement procession in Allen Fieldhouse, Oliver Kapfer was momentarily stumped when asked what made the school’s class of 2019 special. “Me,” he finally answered. “It’s special to me because ...
Story updated at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2019: A teen who took a handgun to Lawrence High School in February has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime in connection with the incident. The teen pleaded no contest to criminal use of weapons on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, ...
The threat of more rain Wednesday night will force Free State High School's graduation ceremony to move indoors. The ceremony, which begins at 7 p.m., will be held at Allen Fieldhouse on the campus of the University of Kansas, the Lawrence school district announced just after noon Wednesday. ...
Before Lawrence High School's 145th commencement, as the 352 graduates were lining up in the hallway of Allen Fieldhouse, Hanna Liebegott said she wasn't nervous about delivering an address to her classmates. “I do debate and perform with the choir,” Liebegott said before Tuesday's ...
A soggy start to the week will force Lawrence High School's graduation ceremony to move indoors Tuesday night. The ceremony, which begins at 7 p.m., will be held at Allen Fieldhouse on the campus of the University of Kansas, the Lawrence school district announced Tuesday morning. Doors will ...
Hilary Griggs is willing to rise to meet challenges — or stoop to them, if that’s what the job requires. The Yale-bound Bishop Seabury Academy senior said she knows it’s a little bit cliche, but her birds have taught her a lot about the value of hard work. Griggs, 18, said her family ...
Each year, the Journal-World reaches out to the Academic All-Stars from 10 years ago to see what they've been up to since high school. Here's what the members of the 2009 class told us via email: Jacob Rhodes When Jacob Rhodes graduated from Oskaloosa High School in 2009, he hadn't yet ...
Every year since 1997, the Journal-World has invited administrators and counselors from public and private high schools in the Lawrence area to nominate their most outstanding seniors for the Journal-World’s Academic All-Star team. As in previous years, a panel of three judges reviewed ...
A teen has been sentenced to probation for stealing a gun from his father, which he then reportedly sold to a fellow student on Lawrence High School grounds. Douglas County District Court juvenile judge Bethany Roberts closed hearings in the teen’s case to the public, but according to the ...
Susan Lomshek, a third grade teacher at Schwegler Elementary School, is the 2019 Bobs Award winner, the Lawrence Schools Foundation announced in a news release Thursday. Lomshek has taught at Schwegler for 29 years, following her parents’ footsteps into the profession, according to the ...
The Free State Firebirds are state champions in speech and forensics — for the first time in the school’s history, according to the team’s coach. Lawrence High School came in fourth place overall at the state championship. Free State coach Kelly Thompson told the Journal-World via ...