High school students with visions of creating the next iPhone or next Habitat for Humanity now have a chance to score some venture capital.McPherson College plans to award grants to individual students or teams of students who come up with the best entrepreneurial ideas.The college will give ...
Financial professionals, educators and others with detailed knowledge and proficiency regarding budgets, public finance and other monetary matters related to public education now have an opportunity to share their expertise with leaders of the Lawrence school district.For free.“Obviously, ...
Authentic, game-worn baseball and softball jerseys worn by the earliest Free State Firebirds soon will hit the auction block, with proceeds to go toward buying new equipment for both sports at the school.Members of the Lawrence school board agreed Monday night to let parents of players in both ...
Finance advisory group on way Members of the Lawrence school board also agreed Monday to form a new Finance Advisory Committee, a volunteer group intended to help board members and district administrators make sense of budget challenges and opportunities.Board members intend to appoint the ...
There are the familiar sounds of sneakers skidding on wood and basketballs thwomping against the court, but this is not an ordinary game. To the side of the court, there are a dozen pictures of a smiling boy and newspaper clippings telling of athletic glory.“One thing about Preston is his ...
Making the switch?Here’s some advice from Terry Dahl for any other Wildcats looking to join Jayhawk Nation:Be open and up-front about it. Dahl sent an email to family and friends, and he encourages others not to be shy coming out of the purple closet. “It feels better when you get it off ...
Time is running out for members of an advisory group assigned to recommend which two or three elementary schools should close during the next couple years.After group members spent more than two hours Monday night discussing ideas, options and processes without coming to conclusions — about ...
As the new year begins, the Lawrence school district is gathering projections for how many more students will be expected to enroll in elementary schools during the next five years.Even if it’s not clear which schools will be open then.“We need these numbers for future planning, for ...
Turns out Free State High School students won’t need to make up as much time as originally thought.Earlier this month, Lawrence school district administrators calculated that the school’s more than 1,500 students would need to receive another 289 minutes — that’s 4.81 hours — of ...
Free State High School will be lengthening its shortest school days up until spring break, all to make up for a day of canceled classes earlier this month following a bomb threat.“Block” class periods will be extended by five minutes on Wednesdays and Thursdays from the beginning of the ...
With more than a week still to go in Winter Recess — elementary and middle school students go back to class Jan. 4, while high schoolers return a day later — there’s still time for parents and others to help their students sharpen their math skills during the break.Or at least prevent ...
Members of the Lawrence school board will be looking into the future in a couple weeks, and some of the board’s appointed advisers are invited to listen in.Board members are scheduled to hear Jan. 9 from Rob Schwarz, principal planner with RSP & Associates.Schwarz and his firm have ...
The Lawrence school district is heading into the new year with plenty of institutional learning expected to come:• How or when to consolidate its roster of elementary schools.• What upgrades or expansions should be slated for remaining elementary schools and perhaps whether a new school or ...
Kennedy School plans to send a “stranger danger” reminder to school parents after a second-grade girl reported to her family Wednesday that two men in a vehicle approached her and attempted to talk to her as she walked home from school. The child’s father filed a report with Lawrence ...
So if you’re Lori Sinclair, a third-grade teacher at Woodlawn School, and your principal, your superintendent, your husband, board members, parents, a television camera and a whole bunch of other people burst into your room at 8:45 a.m., what’s the first thing that goes through your ...
If there’s one thing members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group can agree on, it’s this: A bond issue to upgrade elementary schools should be prepared, proposed and approved.The details, of course, would need to be worked out, several members of ...
The future of English as a Second Language programs is among dozens of factors being balanced as an advisory group moves closer to recommending which Lawrence elementary schools should be consolidated in the name of efficiency.“That is something to consider,” said Vanessa Sanburn, vice ...
Employees of the Lawrence school district soon will be receiving some extra holiday cheer: $1.3 million in one-time payments, to be distributed at this time next week.The payments come courtesy of the Lawrence school board, which earlier this year decided to dip into reserve funds to finance ...
Came across a new excuse for not turning in homework:I left my homework outside someone else’s home — an auction house, in fact.Huh?Read on, or click on this story that first appeared in the Times Herald-Record in New York state:“Homework leads to arrest of 12-year-old in ...
Editor’s note: This concludes our three-part series examining efforts to reduce bullying in the Lawrence school district. See the first part, on how schools combat bullying, here, and the second part, on the thin line between coaching and bullying, here.University researchers test innovative ...