INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano. Like a growing number of ...
The Lawrence school district has purchased a new system that uses artificial intelligence to look for warning signs of "concerning behavior" in the things students type, send and search for on their district-issued computers and other such devices. The purchase of the software system, called ...
At a forum Saturday, nine candidates for the Lawrence school board told members of a staff union that raising wages would be a priority for them, and some of them said they knew firsthand the difference a raise can make for low-income workers. The forum at the Lawrence Public Library, which ...
A Liberty Memorial Central Middle School student reported to the school resource officer that another student during lunch on Friday made threatening comments about school violence and harming school staff, according to a news release from the Lawrence school district. The officer and staff ...
The Lawrence school board meeting planned for Monday has been moved to Tuesday because of the Yom Kippur holy day. Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in Judaism. This year it will occur next week from sunset on Sunday until sunset on Monday. "The board wants to honor that ...
Lawrence police worked with Billy Mills Middle School staff Thursday morning to investigate student reports that a student had made a bomb threat and threatened to bring a gun to school, according to a news release from the Lawrence school district. Police determined that neither threat was ...