(KCTV) - Lawrence Public Schools is reviewing certain aspects of its safety plan after claims that a former employee sexualy assaulted students at an elementary school. Mark E. Gridley, 60 ...

Superintendent Jeanice Swift is pictured on Monday, February 24, 2025. The Lawrence school board on Monday approved Superintendent Jeanice Swift’s employment contract with an annual salary of ...

Carrie Schmidt is pictured on Monday, March 10, 2025, at a school board meeting in Lawrence. A public commenter who has been frequently attending Lawrence school board meetings was escorted out of ...

The Lawrence school district will make up snow days this year by tacking minutes onto the end of school days and adding a day and a half day to the end of the year. So far during the 2024-25 school ...

Great! Here’s how to do it. Dear Lawrence Community, For our part, the USD 497 Board of Education resolutely wants transgender students, staff, and their families to feel all love the whole school day ...

The Lawrence school board on Monday will learn where the district is with its instructional hours following several snow days and consider approving the 2025-26 district calendar. So far during the ...

The Lawrence school board will meet on Monday, August 26, 2024 at the Lawrence district offices, 110 McDonald Dr. Lawrence school board members will hear another update on Monday about how nearly ...

A Prairie Park Elementary School mother and her daughter have filed a lawsuit against Lawrence Unified School District 497 after former employee Mark Elliott Gridley allegedly sexually abused ...

Jeanice Swift is pictured on Monday, February 24, 2025. The Lawrence school district celebrated the hiring of Interim Superintendent Jeanice Swift to take on the permanent role, and for Swift ...