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Bishop Seabury Academy s Academic WorldQuest team from left, Lyle Griggs, Evan McHenry, Peter Westbrook and Audrey Nguyen-Hoang is pictured here in February 2020 with their trophy from the competition s 2020 Kansas City, Mo., regional. The same team, known as Team A, won the regional for a second year in a row on March 4, 2021.
A Bishop Seabury Academy team once again proved its global knowledge by winning a regional Academic WorldQuest competition for the second year in a row.
As the winner of the 17-team Kansas City, Mo., area regional, the Bishop Seabury team will compete in the national tournament next month, according to a news release from the International Relations Council, which hosted the regional event.
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Lawrence Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Lewis speaks Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day community breakfast hosted by the Jayhawk Rotary Club at Maceli s banquet hall.
Lawrence Superintendent Anthony Lewis is a long way from Montgomery, Ala. the “Cradle of the Confederacy” where he began his teaching career. Now, he’s a leader in a community that was founded as part of the struggle to end slavery.
Regardless of its founding by abolitionists, Lawrence still has a lot of work to do on racial justice and ought to find some of that long-ago urgency of its founders, Lewis told a crowd Monday morning at an event honoring the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.