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High School Graduation 2008
Check out photos, videos and databases of the Lawrence area high school class of 2008.
In depth
- District decision on fields due today
- Application of city code questioned
- October 13, 2008
- Sometimes politics is all about interpretation. For opponents of the Lawrence school district’s plans to build athletic fields at Lawrence High School, city planners’ interpretation of the land development code means that the project, should it receive the go-ahead from the school board tonight, results in a dangerous, and perhaps illegal, situation.
- Break out of the lunchtime blues with bento
- October 13, 2008
- When the school year started up again, Lawrence mom Ginger Hodison decided to brown-bag it. She was tired of her daughters, Rachael, 15, and Amaya, 8, skimping on lunch.
- Head of the class: KU graduate returns to Lawrence as CJHS principal
- October 13, 2008
- The life of a principal is hectic, but perhaps never more so than when starting a school year in a new place. Anna Stubblefield, who began serving as Central Junior High School’s principal in August, has met the challenges of being a principal head-on. The Kansas City, Mo., native and Kansas University graduate says her colleagues and students have made for an easy transition from her last position, where she was an assistant principal in the Blue Valley School District.
- Lawrence Public Schools Elementary Lunch Menu
- October 13, 2008
- Hillcrest PTO president Betsy Six juggles full plate
- October 13, 2008
- Every day, Betsy Six knows her children learn a little more about the huge world around them. And it’s not just from classwork or reading — it’s because they attend Hillcrest School, which serves as one of the Lawrence school district’s English as a Second Language sites.
- Kids’ learning comes naturally with Baker Wetlands field trip
- October 11, 2008
- “Do you know where you are?” “Wetlands!” Science lessons got interactive Friday for a group of Lawrence second-graders. This fall, students from Lawrence schools are traveling to Baker Wetlands to learn about environmental cycles. The trips are a part of Learning About the Environment Through the Arts, a program designed to provide ecology and arts experiences.
- Lawrence Virtual School leader defends quality of students’ educations
- October 9, 2008
- The Lawrence Virtual School is a growing reality.
- Science Fair informational meeting planned for tonight
- October 9, 2008
- The Lawrence public schools and the Douglas County Science Fair Association host a science fair information night for teachers, parents and students.
- Lawrence students make a point to walk to school today
- October 8, 2008
- Lawrence sidewalks were busier than usual Wednesday morning. Groups of Sunset Hill Elementary School students and their parents abandoned cars and walked to school in support of National Walk to School Day.
- Free State students meet with their English counterparts via the Web
- During video conference, Free State class learns about life across the pond
- October 8, 2008
- Thanks to technology at Free State High, an advanced-placement senior politics class participated in the Lawrence school district’s first international video conference, when the class discussed pop culture and politics with students from the Mildenhall College of Technology in England.
- Kids get smoke in their eyes for fire prevention lesson
- October is Fire Prevention Month and students get hands-on lesson
- October 7, 2008
- Fire Prevention Month gets Lawrence Douglas County Fire Medical personnel to local elementary schools to teach first and fifth graders about fire safety.
- Area youths learning about global culinary customs
- October 6, 2008
- Some local kids are getting a world tour of food right in their own junior high. As part of Central's after school program, students are not only learning about culinary customs from around the globe, but they're making them too.
- Oxford dream granted to Lawrence teen who had heart transplants
- October 6, 2008
- By the time Rose Naughtin, second from left above, was 12, she was on her third heart. Today, five years after her second heart transplant, the 17-year-old Free State High School senior is looking forward to college and is reflecting on a dream trip.
- KU professor to examine slogans, rhetoric in presidential campaigns
- October 6, 2008
- Hope. Maverick. These two words have dominated this year’s presidential campaigns, and whether the messages of U.S. Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are influencing voters will be up for debate Oct. 12 during a Kansas University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences program.
- Where should Mark on the Move go next? Let us know!
- October 5, 2008
- “Mark’s on the Move” is a feature segment as 6News anchor/reporter Mark Boyle searches for the often untold and overlooked stories in our community. This is a great chance for you the viewer to weigh in on and add to the stories that we are unable to cover through our daily news coverage.
- Teachers find help in learning coaches
- October 5, 2008
- When first-year teacher Cassidy Kitcheyan finds herself overwhelmed by the demands of her job, she knows help is just an e-mail away. The Haskell Indian Nations University graduate is a first-grade teacher at Hillcrest School, and she relies on the help of the Lawrence school district’s learning coach program.
- Turner superintendent shakes up schools
- October 5, 2008
- Michelle Sedler started in the Turner School District as a paraprofessional, a position that doesn’t always get the most respect in the education business.
- Band uniforms get new purpose
- October 5, 2008
- They hang silently now, but the old Salina South and Central High School marching band uniforms filling Pat and Ron Gilbert’s garage soon may return to the football stadium — as lap blankets.
- Marching Festival to draw school bands
- October 4, 2008
- The 17th annual Heart of America Marching Festival will bring 14 high school bands to Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium today. Bands from Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska will compete in a preliminary round beginning at 1 p.m., then class championship exhibitions and the finals begin at 6:30 p.m.
- Firebirds get fired up at homecoming parade
- October 3, 2008
- The Free State High School Homecoming Parade marched from 15th and Wakarusa to the school Friday afternoon.
- Police say student ran into car before Free State Homecoming parade
- 04:09 p.m., October 3, 2008 Updated 05:27 p.m.
- A 42-year-old woman struck a 15-year-old Free State High School student during the school's homecoming parade Friday afternoon.
- Writer: Assessments interfere with learning
- October 3, 2008
- When a school’s state assessment score goes up, that’s cause for alarm, said Alfie Kohn, a former teacher, author and highly vocal opponent of the No Child Left Behind Act, during a community lecture Thursday night. A response he’d like to hear from more parents is, “What did they have to sacrifice from my child’s education to increase scores?” Kohn said.
- Grant to fund school’s safe room
- October 3, 2008
- Eudora elementary school students and teachers should be a little safer, thanks to a $566,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help construct a tornado safe room at their new school. The safe room also will serve as a cafeteria and commons room and will open when the new school does next fall.
- Free State parade to mark Homecoming
- October 3, 2008
- Firebird pride will be on display this afternoon, as Free State High School culminates a week of events with its Homecoming parade.
- KPERS not hurt by financial crisis
- Retirement plan ‘not going to lose a dime,’ official says
- October 3, 2008
- When stocks dove almost 800 points on Monday, many people were wondering whether their 401(k) was more like a $4.01(k). But Lawrence teachers and other public employees can rest easy. Their retirement funds are safe. Teachers defer 4 percent of their salary to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, or KPERS.
- Fundraiser to aid exchange students
- October 2, 2008
- The Lawrence Sister Cities Advisory Board will have a community fund-raising event from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at the Williams House, 700 Calif.
- Police locate 7-year-old Sunset Hill student
- 05:13 p.m., September 30, 2008 Updated 06:54 p.m.
- Lawrence police located a 7-year-old boy, Molique Wealthall, who was missing from Sunset Hill School.
- Vocal opponent of No Child Left Behind to speak at KU Thursday
- Author Alfie Kohn wants parents to think about different kinds of learning
- September 30, 2008
- One of the nation’s most vocal opponents of the No Child Left Behind Act is set to take the stage at Kansas University on Thursday.
- Learning coach program helps teachers navigate professional challenges
- September 29, 2008
- When first-year teacher Cassidy Kitcheyan finds herself overwhelmed by the demands of her job, she knows help is just an e-mail away.
- Where should Mark on the Move go next? Let us know!
- September 28, 2008
- “Mark’s on the Move” is a new feature segment as 6News anchor/reporter Mark Boyle searches for the often untold and overlooked stories in our community. This is a great chance for you the viewer to weigh in on and add to the stories that we are unable to cover through our daily news coverage.
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