Celebration cheers 25,000 inclusive books placed in the hands of Kansas City children

Turn the Page KC and LINC celebrated with Kansas City civic leaders who predicted that young lives touched by the books will soar higher on the same literary fuel that propelled them to where they are today.

Future focus: You can help shape Kansas City schools' vision toward 2030

With Blueprint 2030, the Kansas City Public Schools aims to reimagine the city’s educational system — including the charter schools that share the city’s and state’s resources. And they want your help.

LINC In Photos 2019

We are happy to share LINC in Photos 2019 – a visual representation of LINC's impact and presence in the community.

KC council passes tenants bill of rights; trims tax incentives proposed for Waddell & Reed

UPDATE: Dec. 19, the council passes a trimmed-down incentives package for Waddell & Reed.

A tenants bill of rights sailed to overwhelming approval by the Kansas City City Council Dec. 12 as a full house of supporters — many of them renters with their own histories of housing struggles — cheered the fruits of their work. In a separate action, the City Council wants to take another look at tax incentives in a proposed move by Waddell & Reed that would impact the Kansas City Public Schools and charters.

Turn the Page KC, LINC awarded $73,000 for new, inclusive books by nonprofit First Book

Turn the Page KC and LINC were chosen from among over 100 applicants to receive the award for books that will expand Turn the Page KC’s mission to mobilize the community to achieve reading proficiency at grade level or above for all third graders in Kansas City, Missouri.

Commission selects two KCPS schools to tell 'a new history' of the African American experience

John T. Hartman Elementary and African-Centered College Preparatory Academy students and staff were chosen to help gather and share a new history in understanding the complex, 400-year history of African Americans in North America. The schools will be Institutional Ambassadors to the National Park Service’s 400 Years of African American History Commission.

LINC commissioner, partners named among the 50 most powerful people in KC area

Faces deeply familiar to LINC appeared in the pantheon of influential leaders when 435 Magazine recently profiled its choices of the 50 most powerful people in the Kansas City right now.

LINC's Yolanda Robinson to be honored for community service

The National Congress of Black Women is honoring LINC’s Yolanda Robinson as one of five African-American women who will be honored at its Kansas City Black Tie gala under the theme “Reaching Milestones: Empowering One Woman at A Time.”

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.

'Justice in the Schools' moves fast in Year One to help KCPS families with free legal services

Justice in the Schools project director Cori Smith came with a host of numbers to present to the LINC commission meeting in May. But the one that startles her the most, she said, is the four-out-of-10 students who move in or out of their Kansas City Public Schools classrooms every year.

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.

Festivals, enrollment fairs to celebrate start of new school year

LINC’s partner school districts are gathering their families and communities to summer festivals to launch the start of the 2019-2020 school year with games, school supplies and enrollment opportunities.

'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.”

KCPS to Host Enrollment Fair for New Students

Kansas City Public Schools is hosting its 2019 Enrollment Fair for new students from Monday, July 15 through Thursday, July 18 at the Board of Education building, which is located at 2901 Troost Ave. in Kansas City, Mo.

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.

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.

Songs of their lives; KC East High School refugees, migrants tell their stories in music

East High School teacher Diane Mora challenged her students — many of them refugees or migrants — to find the emotions of their lives in the songs they love — and then write about it.

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.

A justice warrior passes his torch; LINC's Roosevelt Dickerson challenges the next generation

By joining LINC in 2011, Dickerson had found a challenging next step for a life of service after three decades serving his country in the Air Force. “You understand the message,” he said to the gathered LINC staff and supporters in the audience, “because you fight it daily, striking at the very heart of what we call injustice.”

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

Wendell Phillips Elementary Principal Deloris Brown is named KCPS’s Principal of the Year.