Several University of Kansas football players passed on some wisdom to Billy Mills Middle School students on Wednesday: In both sports and academics, perseverance and a positive attitude can go a long way. “An attitude is a big part of who you are,” KU's Hasan Defense said. “That’s ...
Residents of Lawrence will elect new leaders to the Lawrence City Commission and the Lawrence school board on Tuesday, Nov. 5. In the lead-up to that election, the Journal-World has interviewed the six candidates for three seats on the City Commission and the five candidates for the four ...
Story updated at 5:52 p.m. Tuesday A parent worried about his daughter’s safety broke a window late Tuesday morning at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School and helped pull several students out after he heard a report that someone with a gun was in the school. The report turned out to be a ...
Students as young as kindergartners could be seen taking notes during class in the Lawrence school district if it chooses to expand an educational program. As part of its recently adopted strategic plan, the Lawrence school district is exploring expanding AVID, an education program that aims ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday will receive a report about a program the school district uses to help increase college-readiness among students. AVID, which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a nonprofit organization that attempts to close the achievement gap by ...
As a graduate of the former Lawrence Alternative High School, Paula Smith said she wants to help Lawrence students find pathways to success that best suit them. “The way the program was geared to fit me better helped me succeed to graduate on time,” she said of her time at the Lawrence ...
Thea Perry has always been interested in public service, but she was too shy to run for office. That changed, however, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2018. Perry, a candidate for the Lawrence school board election this fall, said the health issue motivated her to ...
During his first year of teaching, Chad Aberle showed an ability to build strong relationships with his students and their parents, which is a sign of a great teacher, said West Middle School Principal Brad Kempf. “What Chad did to create a culture for learning in his first year of teaching ...
As a community health professional, Erica Hill has focused on ways to improve the health of the Lawrence community, and she recently realized the best place to start. “What better way to make an impact on the community than investing in our youth?” said Hill, a candidate for the Lawrence ...
Since Shannon Kimball began serving in the Lawrence school district in 2010, the Lawrence school board has approved several construction projects to renovate buildings across the district. While Kimball, who served on a special elementary school facilities task force for the district in 2010 ...
When Carole Cadue-Blackwood was a fifth-grade student at Cordley Elementary School, a teacher told her she didn’t think Cadue-Blackwood would finish her education. “I was really skinny, we were really poor, and I got bullied,” she said. “(The teacher) said, ‘I bet a dime to a dollar ...
In a new area of Lawrence High School, students are now seeing a lot of something that they only got a little bit of before — sunlight. Large glass windows are a major feature in LHS’s new “innovation corridor,” a renovation that aims to bring the decades-old school into the 21st ...
As interim Principal Cynthia Johnson walks through the hallways of Lawrence High School, students give her high-fives. They talk to her about how their day has been going. And they call her by a more affectionate name: “Mama J.” Those kinds of interactions are just a few of the ways ...
When Emma Hefty was in seventh grade in 2018, she began to feel constant pain in her back. After meeting with doctors, she and her family learned that she was living with a curved spine, a condition known as scoliosis. “I was in so much pain I didn’t want to go out with my friends,” ...
Gov. Laura Kelly launched a council on tax reform Monday and appointed Lawrence school board member Shannon Kimball as a member. The Governor’s Council on Tax Reform, issued by Executive Order 19-11, will conduct an 18-month study culminating in the council making specific statutory ...
A majority of the Lawrence school board expressed frustration over the Lawrence City Commission choosing not to consider an ordinance that would ban local businesses from selling tobacco products to people under the age of 21. “I'm really disappointed to hear (that),” said board member ...
Seven Eudora High School students installed a fence Friday along the property line of a newly constructed house in Eudora’s Shadow Ridge subdivision, talking about the task at hand above the noise of earth-moving equipment across the street. The seven students are enrolled in this year’s ...
In just his first three months on the job at Luckyberry, Steven Wood said he’s had the two creations he made from scratch land on the restaurant’s menu. Now he’s working on what he hopes will be his third. He said it’s an opportunity he’s been dreaming of since he was in middle ...
The Lawrence school district will discuss ways to address student use of e-cigarettes during its next meeting. In the school board’s agenda packet, the school district refers to the use of e-cigarettes, also known as "vaping," by minors as an epidemic. The agenda also said the use of ...