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Lawrence school district hosting social media nights for parents

If the only meaning you know of the words "snap" and "tweet" are something you might hear, you may want to consider attending one of the Lawrence school district’s upcoming social media nights for parents. Because, odds are, there is a lot of tweeting and snapping going on across the screen ...

Lawrence organizations holding camps for upcoming schools-out days

Lawrence public school elementary and middle school students have a few days off coming up, and several organizations are offering camps or activities. There is no school for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade on Feb. 19, and no school for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade on Feb. 25 ...

Free State to host student discussion on race and the Confederate flag

A discussion about race and the Confederate flag will be held for Free State High School students Wednesday morning. A Free State student had been displaying the Confederate flag from a makeshift flagpole on his truck that he parked on campus. After about a week of the display, school ...

Lawrence advocacy group to host discussion on public education legislation

Educate Lawrence, a local public education advocacy group, is hosting a discussion next week about legislation affecting K-12 education in Kansas. Funding for Kansas public schools is the biggest category of spending in the state, and several significant changes — consolidation of the ...