The Kansas Legislature approved Gov. Laura Kelly’s school finance plan just in time for Kathy Johnson, the Lawrence school district’s executive director of finance, to provide a budget update to the school board on Monday. It’s still uncertain whether the plan, which the House approved ...
Superintendent Anthony Lewis said he was instrumental in bringing restorative practices to Kansas City (Mo.) Public Schools, where he was an assistant superintendent prior to coming to Lawrence in July. In the KCMO district, Lewis said, the superintendent and cabinet went through a two-day ...
Carissa Miles, an AVID coordinator, teacher and strategies instructor at West Middle School, has been named Billy Mills Middle School’s new assistant principal, the Lawrence school district announced in a release. AVID, or Advancement via Individual Determination, is a district program and ...
Free State High School Associate Principal Steve Heffernan plans to return to a teaching position for the 2019-2020 school year, the Lawrence school district announced in a news release Wednesday. He’ll also continue to coach cross-country. High school administrators can no longer serve ...
Barbara Williams, assistant principal at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, plans to resign effective June 30 to “pursue other professional opportunities,” according to a news release from the school district. Williams served as a teacher, learning coach and coordinator for AVID, ...
Story updated at 4:45 p.m. Friday, April 5: Julitha Rials, a special education teacher at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, said she was happy to have her students with her when she was named the Lawrence school district’s Secondary Teacher of the Year on Friday. Rials said she ...
Story last updated at 1:43 p.m. Friday A middle school student was arrested overnight in Lawrence after reportedly threatening a school shooting. Just before midnight Thursday, Lawrence police received a report that a Billy Mills Middle School student received multiple messages from another ...
Story updated at 5:40 p.m. Thursday, April 4: Sunflower Elementary School music teacher and choir director Peter Gipson said he’s “extremely humbled and grateful” to be named the Lawrence school district’s Elementary Teacher of the Year. Gipson, now in his 14th year with Lawrence ...
The Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center has increased the number of classes it can offer — perhaps exponentially. Peaslee Tech is partnering with Cengage Learning’s Education To Go program to offer students hundreds of online courses. Students enroll through Peaslee, in person or ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office was reviewing Friday’s double shooting case in which two teens were injured, though charges had not been filed late Monday afternoon. The two suspects — also both juveniles — would be scheduled to appear before a judge for detention ...
Updated at 12:30 p.m. Monday After two Lawrence High School students were shot Friday at Holcom Park, the Lawrence school district in a districtwide email Sunday shared plans to improve security and said staff would research topics such as clear backpacks and metal detectors. Two brothers ...
Teachers in four Lawrence schools voted recently to apply for the Kansans Can School Redesign Project’s Apollo phase — but if you don’t live and breathe Kansas K-12 education, that statement might leave you scratching your head. Here’s a primer on the statewide initiative — why ...
When she needed it most, the Boys & Girls Club became a second home for Ruth Gathunguri. It’s been close to a decade now, but the 18-year-old Free State High School senior vividly recalls locking herself in her room, away from the screaming, when her older brother would come home high. ...
A teen has been convicted of stealing a handgun, which he then reportedly sold to another student at Lawrence High School. The teen pleaded guilty as charged to felony theft on Thursday in Douglas County District Court, according to online court records. Thursday's hearing was closed to the ...
The Lawrence school district’s first strategic planning process has reached its approximate halfway point, and the school board on Monday heard some of the chief concerns about the draft plan that arose from conversations with stakeholders. The plan will soon move from broad themes to more ...
Lawrence school board member Shannon Kimball was taken by surprise when she heard complaints from constituents about changes coming this fall to middle school schedules. “When this plan was ready to be talked about publicly, I didn't hear about it from you all — I heard about it from an ...
District leaders are hopeful that students who take their devices home after the last class ends in May will say more than “Great, Netflix all summer.” Lawrence school board members — including Rick Ingram, who voiced that concern at the Monday meeting — agreed they’d like to see ...
The Lawrence school district will hold the second of two community conversations on public safety on Tuesday at Free State High School. The conversation follows one that hundreds of parents and community members attended on Feb. 21 at Lawrence High School. It was prompted by multiple ...
Students in Lawrence middle and high schools can take their devices home for the summer, beginning this year. On Monday, school board members will hear a report from the staff behind that effort and consider requests to replace about $278,500 in accessories. The district rolled out 1:1 ...
Librarians at Pinckney and Cordley elementary schools in Lawrence have accepted a challenge that could garner up to $9,000 for new books and materials in their respective libraries. The Lawrence-based Northeast Kansas Library System, or NEKLS, announced Thursday that it has selected the two ...