Yolanda Franklin for USD 497 School Board

We still have tables available….. please ONLY DM Nothing Unique Organization, Jesslyn Cooper or Yolanda Franklin for a table. There is NO vendor fee.

Whoever said your best blessings comes in three’s must of been thinking about me…. Happy 13th & 8th Birthday 🥳 🎂 🎉 to my grandsons. My Unofficial Triplets!!! Watching you three grow up is truly amazing. From every diaper change, bottle feeding, doctor appointments, and birthday parties… being Grandma is a title that I wear proudly for them. I thank God everyday for allowing me to witness such greatness in you Three Kings!! Keep moving forward. Keep putting God first. And keep being your authentic selves.

Love you,

Grandma

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Lawrence school board names Jeanice Swift as interim superintendent Lawrence school board President Kelly Jones on Wednesday announced the board's selection of Jeanice Swift as interim superintendent.

This is still going on till 3pm!!!! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get supplies for your children.

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Lawrence, KS: Building a partnership between police and the community has been the vision of Police Chief Rich Lockhart since he came to the Lawrence Kansas Police Department. “I’ve always said I want our officers to police our community the way the people want to be policed,” said the Chief. “When I heard the Department of Justice facilitates a program to help strengthen our partnerships and continue the dialogue moving us in that direction, I knew they were the experts to bring on board.”

What: Strengthening Police and Community Partnerships Program
When: Saturday, July 27, 8:30 am – 1:00pm
Saturday, August 3, 8:30 am – 1:00pm
Register: Registration is required. Please fill out the form here: https://bit.ly/RegisterSPCP
Where: Lawrence High School

The Strengthening Police and Community Partnerships Program is a full-day workshop, split into two half-days, where DOJ facilitators hope to improve trust and develop partnerships between police and community members by identifying issues and collectively creating solutions. It requires a diverse group of participants with open minds ready to communicate openly, honestly, and productively. Anyone willing to share with a solutions-based spirit is encouraged to attend.
LKPD’s Office of Diversity and Community Engagement is organizing the event and its commander, Lt Myrone Grady, says they’re working to be sure as many people as possible hear about the workshop so they’re able to hear new voices. “Some of the silence between law enforcement and certain community members are longstanding, in fact, generational,” says Grady, “so these discussions may not flow easily. But we believe the hard work can bring mutual understandings as a foundation to build upon.”
All Lawrence community members are invited to attend. Registration is required. To download a flyer, click here: https://bit.ly/SPCPflyer (please share)

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Interim Superintendent Search

With Dr. Anthony Lewis' move to the Durham, North Carolina, schools, the Kansas Association of School Boards is assisting the Lawrence Board of Education with an interim superintendent search, as part of KASB's member services.

Letters of inquiry, requests for applications, or other questions about the process may be directed to Dr. Brian Jordan or Dr. Doug Moeckel with KASB at [email protected] or [email protected], 1420 SW Arrowhead Rd., Topeka, KS 66604.

The deadline for applications to be submitted at https://kasb.myrevelus.com/ is July 19.

Please share this information with qualified applicants, per the Kansas State Department of Education's school leadership license requirements found at www.ksde.org.

Home Members of the Kansas State Board of Education are expected to vote on the adoption of the model for KESA 2.0, the second iteration of the Kansas Education Systems Accreditation, during their monthly meeting on July 9-10, in Topeka.

Every year we do a fundraising campaign to help with the cost of our Christmas Dinner Boxes.

This year we are going to be hosting a fundraising event with Lil Caesars Pizza Pizza 🍕 Kits.

Each kit makes 3 - 12’ pizzas for $26.00
There is also a Gluten Free option for $30.00

Our fundraiser will run from 6.1.2024 - 6.22.2024.

We are accepting preorders and you can also place your orders online!!!

To order online:

http://bit.ly/OrderPizzaKits

Fundraiser ID: 440336
Choose: “Ship My Ordwr to the Group”

**All major credit cards are accepted **

ROCk your most colorful socks on today!!!!

Calling all youth!!

Looking for a safe place for your kids to do something magical and magnificent?

Looking for something enjoyable for your kids to do over the summer vacation?

Well please send an email to nothing unique org at gmail dot com. We will put your child’s name on our list and send you all the information to get them started.

First meeting is set for Saturday June 1, 2024 at 12noon. Location TBD.

Next year my grandkids will NOT miss another Valentine’s Day Party. We doing our own. Making boxes. Signing cards. All dat….. taking it back ole school when we used to sit up the night B4 signing cards and taping suckers 🍭 to them thangs

20 years before the famous Brown vs Board of Education there was: The Berwyn School Fight

TEHS - Quarterly Archives By the early 1930s the townships of Tredyffrin and Easttown had a small but vibrant African-American community, many of whose members had migrated from the southern states to find both employment and equality. While vestiges of segregation were still apparent along the Main Line, white and black chi...

As we explore the twists and turns of this gripping tale together, my granddaughter and I find ourselves more connected than ever before.

Update: The override attempt did not happen today as expected. It is expected to happen this week. Please continue to email!

We support full and fair funding of public schools with tax policy that will generate revenue sufficient to fund the school finance formula. The current Flat Tax plan is projected to leave Kansas with a negative balance of $514.6 million by 2029. The bill passed through the legislature in record time using a gut-and-go and was vetoed by Gov. Kelly. An override attempt is expected today in the House.

Please email legislators and let them know that Kansas children deserve a tax plan that supports our public schools, not another experiment.

Rep. Mike Amyx -- [email protected]

Rep. Barbara Ballard -- [email protected]

Rep. Christina Haswood -- [email protected]

Rep. Boog Highberger -- -- [email protected]

Rep. Lance Neelly -- [email protected]

Rep. Carrie Barth -- [email protected]

Rep. Adam Turk -- [email protected]

February 3, 1914 – Ruth Inge Hardison is a Black American sculptor, artist, and photographer, known particularly for her 1960s busts entitled "Negro Giants in History was born in Portsmouth, VA, on February 3, 1914".

Her 1983 collection called "Our Folks," which features sculpted portraits of everyday people, is also of note. Hardison's artistic productions largely surround historical black portraiture, and she is especially interested in creatively representing the unspoken voices of the Black American past. She was the only female in the Black Academy of Arts and Letters (BAAL), a group that encourages awareness of Black artistic accomplishments, when this organization was founded in 1969.

Her family later moved to Brooklyn, New York. Before completing her education, Hardison acted in the Broadway Productions of George Abbott’s “Sweet River” and “Country Wife,” opposite Ruth Gordon. During her brief career in the theater, she began sculpting as a hobby. When she took part in the yearlong “What A Life” production, she even created a sculpture of its cast, later displayed at the Mansfield Theatre.

As a young woman, she studied music and creative writing at Vassar College. She also studied at the Art Students League of New York and Tennessee State University. Hardison's works largely begin as clay, wax, or plaster molds, and are later cast into cast stone or bronze. Hardison began “Negro Giants in History” a series of cast iron busts in 1963.

Her first bust in that series was of Harriet Tubman, which measured eight inches in height; she has also created busts of W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Sojourner Truth, and Mary McCleod Bethune, among others. Her bronze Douglass bust, for example, was unveiled at Princeton’s Firestone Library in 1983.

Other public works include a 7-foot abstract figure called "Jubilee" which stands on the campus of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, a series of 18 children on an outdoor wall of I.S.74 in Hunts Point in the Bronx, and a five-foot mother and Child given to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1957 in gratitude for their help in delivering her only child, Yolande, in 1954. She also created a series of Ingenious Americans, little known black inventors and other notables commissioned and sold by Old Taylor Whiskey in the late 1960s.

The series of nine busts included Benjamin Banneker, Charles Richard Drew, Matthew Henson, Frederick McKinley Jones, Lewis Latimer, Garrett Morgan, Norbert Rillieux, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams and Granville Woods. At auctions, her sculptures have earned more than $1300 apiece. In 1990 New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo presented Hardison’s 1990 two-foot sculpture of Sojourner Truth to Nelson Mandela on behalf of the people of New York State. Reflecting on her work, Hardison once said: “During my long life I have enjoyed using different ways to distill the essences of my experiences so as to share for the good they might do in the lives of others.” HAPPY BIRTHDAY INGE HARDISON!!!!! {R.I.P}

Celebrating Black History Month with pride! 🖤

👏 Gladys Bentley, a trailblazing gender-bending performer of the Harlem Renaissance, broke barriers in the 1930s.

Wearing a top hat and tuxedo, Bentley mesmerized Harlem at iconic spots like the Clam House and the Ubangi Club, leaving an indelible mark. In 2019, The New York Times recognized Bentley as "Harlem's most famous le***an" of the era and one of the "best-known Black entertainers in the United States."

🌟 Let's honor Bentley's legacy and continue to celebrate diversity and inclusion! 🌈✊🏾

Boundary Advisory Committee / 2023-2024 School Year The Lawrence Board of Education charged the Boundary Advisory Committee to review middle school boundaries for possible changes.