When Broken Arrow and Pinckney elementaries close later this year, the interim principals of both schools will be moving to new positions, the Lawrence school d
Kansas Athletics recognized some of its top current and former student-athletes and presented the 2022 class of 92 graduating seniors their K Rings at the Jayhawk Senior Celebration inside the Kansas Union Monday night.
A Lawrence school district leader is leaving her position at the end of the year to take a job at the University of Kansas. Jennifer Bessolo, who currently ser
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Carissa Miles has been selected to serve as the next principal for Southwest Middle School, beginning July 1, 2021.
The Lawrence school district has selected a familiar face to lead its Southwest Middle School.
Superintendent Anthony Lewis announced Thursday that Carissa Miles, assistant principal and athletic director for Lawrence’s Billy Mills Middle School, will be the new principal for Southwest.
Pending school board approval, Miles will take over the position on July 1, replacing outgoing principal Kristen Ryan. The district recently hired Ryan to become the next district director of elementary schools, the Journal-World previously reported.
Ronald G.R. Gordon-Ross
Ronald “G.R.” Gordon-Ross always planned to serve more than one term on the Lawrence school board. Now he has thrown his hat in the ring to make that happen.
Gordon-Ross, 46, who was first elected in 2017, recently filed for reelection to the board. He is the first person to file for the board’s elections this year.
Even though it was his original aspiration, Gordon-Ross said it took him some time to decide on filing to run again because the last year during which the coronavirus pandemic disrupted education and led to conflict among parents, teachers and administrators for months had been extremely difficult.