Douglas County’s school virus guidance will remain at its lowest tier for the fourth straight week as key metrics for the spread of COVID-19 continue to fall. On Thursday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that its guidance to schools would stay in the green tier, which ...
A group of Lawrence middle school students are blasting off to the moon to participate in a national competition that envisions future cities. West Middle School’s 10-member Future City team earned the opportunity to compete in the organization's national tournament after finishing first in ...
Gabe Steadham, who finished eighth in last year's Douglas County Spelling Bee, channeled his competitive drive to win this year's contest — a different kind of bee that was held entirely online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Baldwin Elementary School Intermediate Center fourth grader ...
SHAWNEE — A high school student in the Kansas City, Kan., suburb of Shawnee was found with a handgun in his backpack at school, police and school officials there said. The gun and other contraband were found by Shawnee Mission Northwest High School staff Thursday morning in a search of the ...
Douglas County’s school virus guidance will remain at its lowest tier for the third straight week as new cases of COVID-19 continue to fall. On Thursday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that its guidance to schools would stay in the green tier, which recommends that schools ...
The Lawrence school district on Thursday reached a significant threshold for staff members receiving vaccines for COVID-19. District spokeswoman Julie Boyle said 1,000 faculty and staff members had received a first dose of the vaccine. The milestone is important as the district works through a ...
TOPEKA — Two influential K-12 education organizations in Kansas perked up when the Senate’s education committee agreed to dive into a bill mandating that in-person instruction resume by March 26 and forbidding local school boards from ever again shifting to online-only instruction for ...
Story updated at 9:02 p.m. Monday: The Lawrence school district made two administrative appointments Monday, including a new leader for Lawrence High School. The district announced in a news release that Jessica Bassett would be the next principal of the high school beginning July 1. ...
The Lawrence school district is planning for $22.5 million of building and equipment improvements during this school year and the next, according to the district’s capital improvement plan. During its meeting on Monday, the school board will hear a presentation about those plans as part of ...
Douglas County’s school virus guidance will remain at its lowest tier for the second straight week as new cases of COVID-19 continue to fall. On Thursday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that its guidance to schools would stay in the green tier, which recommends that schools ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas will put a priority on vaccinating teachers and other school staff against COVID-19 so that K-12 students across the state can resume in-person classes as quickly as possible, Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday. The Democratic governor's announcement came a week after she ...
Have a closing, cancellation or postponement to report? Please email it to closings@ljworld.com. Last updated: 5:41 a.m. Tuesday • The University of Kansas campus will be closed and all classes canceled. • Lawrence public schools will be closed, classes and school activities ...
Schools across Douglas County have canceled classes for Tuesday because of extreme cold and the possibility for power disruptions caused by the weather. Lawrence Public Schools will be closed Tuesday, and all school activities are canceled, the district said. Schools will announce if or when ...
Jesse Milan, a pioneering Black educator in Lawrence schools, Baker University professor and former president of the Kansas branches of the NAACP, earned a bookcase of awards and honors during his life, but his son said one was very special to his father. “In 2004, President George W. Bush ...
Public education leaders say two bills that state legislators are considering could harm the state's school funding at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is already punching holes in school districts' budgets. One of the bills is a tax reform plan that could lower the state's revenue by more ...
Lawrence school district students will be learning from home on Monday because of frigid temperatures, the school district announced Friday night. The district said in an email that the possibility for “sustained extreme temperatures and wind chills” led to the decision. Lawrence schools ...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas schools would be required to offer full, in-person instruction starting March 26 under a bill that was introduced Friday. Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson said in news release announcing the bill that students must not continue to "languish in virtual ...
Topeka — The Kansas Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would greatly expand a tax credit program for private school scholarships, with Republican legislators batting away several intraparty dissenters and suggested amendments in a lengthy debate. The program that the bill would affect ...
Douglas County’s school virus guidance has been downgraded to its lowest tier as cases for COVID-19 continue to fall. Lawrence Douglas County Public Health announced Thursday its recommendation to schools would drop to the green tier, which recommend schools use fully in-person classes. The ...
TOPEKA — Sen. Renee Erickson is advocating passage of a bill by the Kansas Legislature to forbid individuals declared male at birth who later transitioned to female from participating in women’s sports programs at the elementary, high school and college levels. Erickson, a Wichita ...