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“It’s time,” Superintendent Mark Bedell said, as he prepares after six years to leave a district that has regained full accreditation and is positioned for a strong transition and greater achievement with Interim Superintendent Jennifer Collier. “Brighter days are ahead.”
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Kansas City history is making national history. The American Association for State and Local History has named the Kansas City Black History Project as a 2022 winner of its “Award of Excellence,” honoring the work of LINC, the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America
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“Do your favorite dance move!” was the Simon Says command, and in a moment LINC children launched into an dazzling array of gyrations, spins and leg kicks — as varied and entertaining as LINC’s menu of summer recreational and educational fun.
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The summer of 2022 has arrived with refreshing joy and possibilities — but also with a heavy air of fear. The hot season has long brought out the best and the worst of the fellowship that brings neighborhoods together and the violence and neglect that endangers children and families. Here’s what KC is doing about it and how you can help.
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LINC’s Caring Communities capped off the 2021-22 school year with a host of field days, talent shows and parties across the 52 LINC Caring Communities. See our gallery — and sign up for summer!
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Start your reading engines, kids. The Kansas City Public Library and the Mid-Continent Public Library are stocking up again at neighborhood branches near you with adventurous, beautiful themes — and prizes — to inspire summer reading.
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Here comes summer. It’s time for families that are planning to have children in summer school to pre-enroll for LINC’s before- and after-school programs. We’ll be ready with games, activities and fun learning opportunities at 15 school sites in our partner districts.
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Hot dogs, carnival games, fire trucks, prizes, money-saving home services, help with rent, utilities, internet and more — for sure, the inaugural LINC Morning Star Caring Communities Fair June 11 aims to entertain and to serve.
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“It really gave us a new enlightenment of how to teach,” Young Professor’s co-owner Paula Smith said of LINC’s training and consultation program for Missouri’s Infant Toddler Specialist Network.
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Veolele needed a lawyer. Because of LINC’s support for the Hickman Mills and Center Justice in the Schools program with Legal Aid of Western Missouri, her pursuit of guardianship over her grandchildren became one of 279 cases the program has opened since 2020.
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Saturday’s season-ender at Smith-Hale Middle School gathered nearly 100 players to wrap up a year of transition from the online tournaments of the pandemic to the familiar face-to-face battles. Check it out. We’ve got the results.
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It started slowly, but once federal pandemic aid for rent and utilities began reaching Americans in need, more than 80% went as designed to low-income households. LINC played a key role in the Kansas City area.
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The stars came out, dressed for LINC’s Prom Night at Ervin Elementary School in Hickman Mills. Shining dresses and silky suits — on many kids and parents — helped spread the partying vibe as deejay music, balloons and shimmering streamers filled out the scene across the school’s gym floor.
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As Kansas City is being recognized for its citywide crusade for reading, the national director of the Campaign for Grade Level Reading took a moment recently to honor one of the movement’s “fiercest and most relentless champions” — LINC Founder and former Chairman, Bert Berkley.
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“This is what a community is about,” Hickman Mills Superintendent Yaw Obeng said. “In building collaboration with our district, it leads to parent engagement, vendors engagement, and, eventually, student success.”
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Ina P. Montgomery, creator of Urban TEC, is still the tempest who – after a white suburban Kansas City guidance counselor told her she probably wasn’t college material – declared with great Black pride that she’d storm the world in business for herself right out of high school.
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Everything that’s motivated the 12 years of work in the Kansas City Black History Project — the research, the storytelling, the teaching and sharing — has gone fully digital. An enhanced webpage unleashes the stories of more than 80 Black men and women into sortable lists, school lesson plans, poetic video, essays and links to recorded oral history.
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When problems boil up between renters and landlords, hotline services can be overwhelmed and legal aid offices busy. Now renters under stress can go online to the Tenant Problem Solver for help.
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If you earned $73,000 or less in 2021 you can file your income tax return for free. And if you earned $58,000 or less, getting help to file your taxes is also free. Here’s how to get started.
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A PRiME Center study from Saint Louis University raises up high-poverty schools in Missouri that are among the best in showing growth in state test performance.
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