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After a unanimous selection, Jennifer Collier is now in negotiations with the school board to finalize her pending promotion from interim to permanent leader of Kansas City Public Schools.
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Celebrate fathers and daughters at the King and I dance at LINC Caring Communities at Hale Cook Elementary.
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LINC Caring Communities show we’re Super Bowl-ready.
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Come the end of the 2023-2024 school year, North Kansas City Schools Superintendent Dan Clemens will retire, capping off what will then be eight years of leading the district. And now the school board has announced his successor: Current Assistant Superintendent - Organizational Development Rochel Daniels.
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For the life of a community school, nothing could be more dire than what brought a tense and overflowing crowd into an east Kansas City meeting room Monday night. Genesis School, attorney Chuck Hatfield said, is staring down a “death penalty.”
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Raised in Kansas City’s east side, Alvin Sykes would find power in libraries to rise up as a human rights icon, redressing wrongs in the U.S. justice system, championing new investigations into the murders of Emmitt Till and Leon Jordan.
His story is one of eight new biographies that highlight the second edition of the national award-winning publication, Kansas City Black History. Learn more and order a copy by clicking here.
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A state commission’s plan to close Genesis School over issues of performance will be tested in a public hearing Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. at the Bluford branch of the Kansas City Public Library, 3050 Prospect Ave. Members of the Genesis School community will be given a chance to speak at the special hearing before the Missouri Charter Public School Commission.
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From the beginning, LINC’s effort to connect nearly 2,000 households to more than $2.8 million in U.S. rental and utility bill assistance funds was essentially a street mission.
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Take a look back. LINC celebrates a full year of Caring Communities, with great appreciation for so many partners and volunteers who all came together to help strengthen children, families and neighborhoods.
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The Caring Communities mission to carry on the life’s work of the late Calvin Wainright has gotten a boost from the NBA’s Phoenix Suns.
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It’s not a simple operation, bagging up 200 toys for every LINC Caring Communities site. But the U.S. Marine Corps and LINC managed it again, packing the big red sacks of toys into an assortment of LINC staff’s pickups, vans, SUVs and one fully loaded U-Haul to cap off another Toys for Tots mission.
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Three thousand and four, to be exact. LINC made sure children and their Caring Communities families had new books to take home for the holidays, continuing a collaboration with the non-profit First Book to help inspire a lifetime of reading.
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To get some idea of the demands on the Hickman Mills School District’s night English classes, consider this: When the district celebrated a multi-cultural night in November, the families that came represented 36 different nations.
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UPDATED: Video of award from the 15 and the Mahomies Foundation, and Patrick Mahomes. Kayla McClellan, who describes herself as “the ultimate hype woman” for her students, can now call herself a 2023 Missouri Regional Teacher of the Year.
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‘Get your energy up!’ See what goes on as the LINC Morning Star Caring Communities team helps hundreds of neighboring families and individuals get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday. Check out the video and photo gallery.
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Teens who grew up in trauma, who drifted from foster home to foster home or came under the state’s care, reach that doorstep to adulthood aching over the same needs as other teens.
These are the spaces where LINC’s team of youth advocates do their work, bringing state resources to bear, acting with great care and creativity to give courageous youth like these hope and confidence — the chance they deserve.
Read some of their stories here.
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They never age. The images, freshly hung on the walls of Kansas City’s Black Archives of Mid-America, 1722 E 17th Terrace, promise to make the sacrifices of the 1960s real to a new generation that still struggles with civil rights.
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The morning’s cold rain turned into a sprinkle and vanished altogether as crisp sunlight broke out over the 2022 Fall Girls on the Run 5K just as hundreds of girls, parents, siblings and coaches crowded to the starting line Saturday. Check out our video and photo gallery.
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His shoulders were as broad as a bear, radiating strength through his hands and legs — and yet Calvin Wainright stood even taller in the breach of the resilient Kansas City communities he served. The lives he touched, like the pictures of players, teams and coaches he taped to the walls of his LINC office, spanned beyond the visible horizon like a glassy sea.
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Our annual Lights On Afterschool celebrations got off to a world-traveling start at Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, painting and chili-eating at J.A. Rogers Elementary, rocket-fuel explosions at Warford, a fashion show at Faxon . . . and there is so much more throughout LINC’s Caring Communities. Check out our video and photo gallery.
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