WICHITA — Three years after the pandemic sent most Kansas kids home to learn, schools have a vexing new challenge: getting them to come back to class. Missing school has become a crisis statewide. More than a quarter of Kansas students were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, ...
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told a KU crowd on Tuesday that when he was in high school, his thoughts weren’t on fixing the U.S. education system. “I was studying to fix cars for the rest of my life,” Cardona said of his time at a technical high school in his home state of ...
Five years after the shade structures at Free State High School's soccer field were removed, the Lawrence school board has set aside about $118,000 to install two new ones. In 2018, the structures were taken out while improvements were made to the field as part of the district's $5.2 million ...
Two weeks after Lawrence students returned to classrooms for the new school year, the City of Lawrence has announced that it’s nearly done filling more than half a dozen vacant crossing guard positions. As the Journal-World reported, eight crossing guard positions were vacant, affecting six ...
The Lawrence school board spent a considerable portion of Monday evening’s board meeting reviewing attendance-related data, while also discussing ways to combat chronic absenteeism and truancy; issues that have plagued the district the past several years. Data presented to board members ...
Three individuals will be posthumously inducted into the Lawrence Lions Alumni Association's Hall of Honor in October, including a teacher, an internationally known musician and a civil rights advocate. The alumni association's annual Hall of Honor induction ceremony, a free and public event, ...