Southwest Middle School students will be heading to Washington, D.C., next month to participate in the international finals of the Future City competition. The trip to the finals will be the ninth for the school. This year a Southwest eighth grade team will represent the Great Plains Future ...
Free State High School senior La’Ron Williams was named the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence’s 2024 Youth of the Year on Thursday night at the Lied Center. This was the second time that Williams, the son of Contessa Woodson and Jermell Taylor, had participated in the Youth of the Year ...
As part of his Kansas Teacher of the Year obligations, Taylor Bussinger is tasked with leading a group of teachers around the state to advocate on behalf of public schools. And now he will have a new set of wheels to do that in. During a short ceremony Tuesday at the Statehouse in Topeka, ...
Free State High School recently earned second place and a $25,000 grant in the Burns & McDonnell "STEM Battle of the Brains!" contest, according to a news release from the Lawrence school district. The Burns & McDonnell Battle of the Brains competition is a K-12 STEM program that ...
A Lawrence high school student died after a shooting Friday night in Olathe, according to a news release from the Olathe Police Department. Brianna Higgins, a 15-year-old sophomore at Lawrence High School, was driven to Olathe Medical Center by an unknown person around 11 p.m. Friday. Police ...
For area eighth grade students entering high school next fall, the path to earning a diploma will require more credits than that of their older classmates. The Lawrence school board on Monday unanimously approved a new set of requirements that increases the total number of credits required to ...