Feeling 'the buzz' after 'incredible turnout' for KCPS SummerFest

More than 7,200 children and adults joined in the KCPS SummerFest back-to-school event Aug. 3. Families enjoyed games, performances and crafts as they also completed enrollment and received backpacks and school supplies.

Center families get a jump on enrollment, fun at Back to School Bash

There was business to take care of for many of the families visiting Center’s Back to School Bash — like enrollment, immunization checks and such. But Center made sure it was fun.

Face-painting, balloon animals, mini-golf and hot dogs entertained the hundreds of adults and children who wandered through the many information booths, including a table for LINC.

Kansas City Public Schools wins national award for efforts to combat evictions

The Kansas City Public Schools’ unique partnership with determined researchers and lawyers to help rescue district families from evictions earned national recognition this week.

KCPS won the 2019 Research and Assessment Leadership Award awarded by the Council of the Great City Schools.

The school district partnered with LINC, the Kansas City Eviction Project and Legal Aid of Western Missouri in creating data tools to alert school officials where district families were vulnerable and in danger of eviction.

'Together Towards Tomorrow' for Hickman Mills starts with rally, enrollment

The Hickman Mills School District’s drive to become a high-performing district is preparing for launch.

The mission’s theme — “Together Towards Tomorrow” — will guide its year-opening festivities, welcoming families for enrollment to its schools and its LINC before- and after-school programs, and celebrating with a community rally.

Back-to-School Immunizations Drive underway at KCMO Health Department

The Back-to-School Immunization Drive is underway at the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department, and parents and guardians are being urged to bring their children in now to avoid those long lines and wait times that only get worse as the first day of school approaches.

Back-to-school state tax holiday weekend coming Aug. 2

Kansas City-area shoppers once again will reap the benefits of back-to-school bargains when Missouri’s sales tax holiday kicks off at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 2. The tax-free weekend runs through Sunday, Aug. 4.

In championing education equity, the 2019 EPFP fellows say: We're just getting started

What the Kansas City fellows in the 2018-2019 Education Policy Fellowship Program presented in their final scheduled time together this summer was more of a launch party of things to come.

When it comes to their chosen mission of championing education policy through a lens of equity, these EPFP fellows made it clear: We’re just getting started.

'We have to talk about these things': LINC students confront race, identity in '30 Americans' exhibition

Students from Wendell Phillips Elementary School toured the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s provocative “30 Americans” exhibition of works by African American artists, taking on its challenging questions of “Race, History, Identity and Beauty.”

Sly James to unveil autobiography, talk of his fight for children's literacy at Plaza Library

Kansas City Mayor Sly James, launching his new autobiography, A Passion for Purpose, will sit down with co-author Sean Wheelock at the Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch July 25 to discuss his career and the life experiences that have shaped his values and views, including his fierce advocacy for children’s literacy and education.

Fort Osage team goes deep into schools to combat youth mental health crisis

A mental health crisis is shadowing the nation’s children and the Fort Osage School District is taking a step that many experts are saying needs to happen with urgency in communities throughout the country: Putting therapists inside their schools.

'For the sake of the children and our city,' Turn the Page looks ahead as Mayor James leaves office

Turn the Page KC’s Summer Reading Splash at the Sprint Center thrilled 2,000 children with new books, while outgoing Mayor Sly James took stock of the work still to be done as Kansas City chases its goal of every child reading at grade level by the third grade.

KC School Suspension Summit: 'Oppression shows up when you don't know it's happening'

The 2019 School Suspension Summit in Kansas City challenged notions of power, race and identity to take on inequitable disparities in area school suspension data.

Ruskin neighborhoods know: Saying 'goodbye' to schools will be hard

The Ruskin Heights and Ruskin Hills neighborhoods are losing two elementary schools. The Hickman Mills School District is holding ceremonial open houses Saturday, June 8, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. because people want to come and remember.

LINC readers eager to dive in at 'Summer Reading Splash' at Sprint Center

Children from LINC programs will join some 2,000 children at the Sprint Center June 19 for the Summer Reading Splash extravaganza. Turn the Page KC and several partners put on the program to help keep children reading through the summer.

Giving Grove's mission to children, communities expanding in LINC school sites

More Giving Groves are coming to LINC sites, giving more children the chance to help grow and nurture fruit-bearing trees for their schools and their communities.

'I know an angel'; Girls on the Run finds heroes among the young and old

The Girls on the Run program in several LINC Caring Communities sites had already changed lives long before the teams of girls and their partners took on the season-ending challenge at Children’s Mercy Park May 4.

The hard, 'scary' road of an artist is worth it, British author tells Hickman Mills students, if you 'love what you're doing.'

“Make sure you love what you’re doing,” British author Katie Green tells aspiring artists in the Hickman Mills Freshman Center.

Feeling 'the buzz' after 'incredible turnout' for KCPS SummerFest

Center families get a jump on enrollment, fun at Back to School Bash

Kansas City Public Schools wins national award for efforts to combat evictions

'Together Towards Tomorrow' for Hickman Mills starts with rally, enrollment

Back-to-School Immunizations Drive underway at KCMO Health Department

Back-to-school state tax holiday weekend coming Aug. 2

In championing education equity, the 2019 EPFP fellows say: We're just getting started

'We have to talk about these things': LINC students confront race, identity in '30 Americans' exhibition

Sly James to unveil autobiography, talk of his fight for children's literacy at Plaza Library

Fort Osage team goes deep into schools to combat youth mental health crisis

'For the sake of the children and our city,' Turn the Page looks ahead as Mayor James leaves office

KC School Suspension Summit: 'Oppression shows up when you don't know it's happening'

Ruskin neighborhoods know: Saying 'goodbye' to schools will be hard

LINC readers eager to dive in at 'Summer Reading Splash' at Sprint Center

Giving Grove's mission to children, communities expanding in LINC school sites

'I know an angel'; Girls on the Run finds heroes among the young and old

The hard, 'scary' road of an artist is worth it, British author tells Hickman Mills students, if you 'love what you're doing.'

Wendell Phillips Elementary's Deloris Brown named KCPS Principal of the Year

Volunteers gear up for Expungement Day; hundreds hoping to clear old criminal records

Thank you! National Afterschool Professionals Appreciation Week recognizes those who serve children and families