The Lawrence school board will receive a recommendation next week that would change a board policy, one regarding appointment of advisory committees.The proposal would change how such committees are appointed, giving all such power to the board itself.“After considering recommendations of the ...
Area marching bands will be participating in Kansas University’s Band Day Parade, set for Saturday afternoon in downtown Lawrence.The lineup includes 33 bands, starting with the Marching Jayhawks and ending with the 312th U.S. Army Band.Among high schools with bands marching in between and in ...
Nearly three dozen teachers, parents and others invested in the future of six Lawrence elementary schools being considered for consolidation gathered Wednesday evening to pose question after question after question about the effort’s potential effects on kids, the evidence being used to make ...
A fund to help teachers defray their inevitable middle-of-the-year expenses for school supplies is off to a good start.Filled by on-the-spot donations during the Community Education Breakfast on Aug. 6, the fund set up by the Lawrence Schools Foundation now has $1,832.44. The fund — started ...
Traditional letter grades now are a thing of the past in elementary schools in the Lawrence school district, and middle schools may be next.“That’s our goal,” said Angelique Kobler, the district’s division director for curriculum and instruction.The first phase of the plan takes effect ...
Members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group are set to gather Wednesday evening for the first of 11 scheduled meetings to come up with a plan for closing some schools, upgrading others and otherwise compiling a long-term plan to guide the Lawrence ...
A potential magnet-school concept is up for discussion in the Lawrence school district.The program, International Baccalaureate, is organized through a nonprofit educational foundation with the stated goal of helping develop in students “the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills ...
Baseball players, coaches, fans and umpires all can expect some relief next summer, when the Lawrence school district will be expected to install permanent restrooms serving fields at Lawrence and Free State high schools.The district must install permanent restrooms to comply with the city’s ...
I'm hearing more about a potential magnet-school concept that may get a look from leaders of the Lawrence school district.The program is International Baccalaureate, organized through a nonprofit educational foundation with the stated goal of helping develop in students “the intellectual, ...
More than 900 licensed educators and hundreds of paraeducators in the Lawrence school district will head to class Tuesday, giving their more than 11,000 students a longer holiday weekend.Some parents may be frustrated by the students’ additional time off school, but administrators maintain ...
I’m working on a story about Standards Based Progress Reports, the documents used in the Lawrence school district to track student performance in grades K-6.Translation: Report cards.But these report cards aren’t like the traditional ones many oldsters remember. In grades K-3, for example, ...
The school year’s just a few days old, but leaders of the Lawrence Schools Foundation already have their eyes set on easing financial pains for teachers and their students come mid-year.During the Community Education Breakfast last Friday, foundation leaders placed yellow cups at each of the ...
A state investigation continues into whether Kansas State University’s online merchandise store is skirting sales tax law, and now some state legislators also are beginning to question KSU’s online practices. In early August, the Journal-World reported that purchases made by Kansas ...
Funny how one guy can run an investment firm with more than $200 billion under management and be introduced by another guy who’s coached one of the country’s top college basketball programs to a national championship, and they still can be upstaged somewhat by a high school senior.Welcome ...
Public education advocates painted a bleak picture of funding trends for education in the state during a public forum Saturday at Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.“It’s very gloomy,” said Mark Desetti, director of legislative and policy advocacy for the Kansas National Education ...
When the day comes that James Naismith’s original typewritten rules of “Basket Ball” find their home at Kansas University, transforming Allen Fieldhouse into a year-round attraction and boosting its stature as a recruiting tool both for basketball players and students and employees, folks ...
The Lawrence school district has hired two administrators from Kansas University to lead 26 volunteers and others through a six-month process to recommend how to shrink the district’s number of elementary schools.The administrators — Marilu Goodyear, director of KU’s School of Public ...
With Gov. Sam Brownback contemplating cuts in the state income tax and making other potential changes in revenue sources, Democrats are organizing a forum to consider how such efforts might drain state financing for public schools.And they’ll convene in one of the two counties statewide that ...
Efforts to begin contemplating ways for consolidating elementary schools in the Lawrence school district will have to wait another week.The first working meeting for the district’s Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group has been rescheduled. Instead of ...
Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little surprised Joey Sprague, professor of sociology, with a Kemper Fellowship on Thursday.Sprague is the sixth professor on the Lawrence campus to receive the award recognizing excellence in teaching this year. She has been a member of the KU ...