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.
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A Kansas City campaign to help hundreds of people clear their names of old criminal records got a “game changing” boost from Missouri lawmakers this week. The bill needs to be signed by Gov. Mike Parson to become law.
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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.”
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People in the fight against human trafficking will gather for a community summit, “Companions on the Journey,” May 18 at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral
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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.
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“Make sure you love what you’re doing,” British author Katie Green tells aspiring artists in the Hickman Mills Freshman Center.
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Wendell Phillips Elementary Principal Deloris Brown is named KCPS’s Principal of the Year.
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Nearly 800 people with old criminal records have registered for help in the Clear Your Record expungement campaign in Kansas City. Their stories are hard, and personal. There is a simple reason the volunteers are trying so hard to help these hundreds navigate the law, spare them onerous legal expenses and digitally speed up the process.
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Wednesday, just three days before Expungement Day in Kansas City, volunteer law students, staff and attorneys rushed to sort through the wave of requests from the hundreds so far who want help clearing their names of long-past wrongs.
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LINC professionals stand out in National Afterschool Professionals Appreciation Week.
LINC’s afterschool program professionals in Caring Communities serve more than 7,500 children in 45 sites across seven school districts in the Kansas City area.
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Many Kansas City-area residents are carrying around criminal records that could be cleared.
Expungement Day is coming to help unshackle those who qualify.
The “Clear My Record” team at Code for KC is calling on people with lingering criminal records to come to the expungement event April 27 between 8 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, 2411 E. 27th Street.
The Clear My Record team is seeking help spreading the word to those who could benefit.
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Anxious. On their knees. In prayer.
Bishop Mark Tolbert knew enough about start-up businesses and Dr. Vivian Roper knew enough about running an urban school to know hard moments would come.
The brother-and-sister team behind Kansas City’s Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy public charter school knew that launching the school 20 years ago meant jumping into water over their heads.
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Some 250,000 children at risk in Missouri, rates higher in Jackson County, says 2019 KIDS COUNT report
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Shawnee Mission Deputy Superintendent Kenny Southwick to succeed retiring Gayden Carruth as executive director of the Cooperating School Districts of Greater Kansas City.
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The Center School District passes a $48 million bond issue with an overwhelming 82 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election.
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The Hickman Mills C-1 School District presented the second annual Family Summit on Saturday, March 30. The event featured many free resources for families and the community including: Job Fair, Health Fair, Dental Clinic, Free Child Care, Resource Tables (Emergency Assistance, Youth Services, Utility and Rental Assistance), free child care and activities for kids was provided by LINC. The event provided free food, prizes, games and much more.
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LINC Community Organizer Mr. Lee Bohannon talked with KCUR - Central Standard about the LINC Chess program and its impact on student performance and their character.
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New Hickman Mills Superintendent Yolanda Cargile was recognized by Missouri school administrators for outstanding performance.
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Nightly news cameras trained on the flames, the looting, and the chaos that gripped Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015. Filmmaker Marilyn Ness sought, and found, more.
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Kansas City’s public school lineup is reducing by two charter schools at the end of this school year.
Kansas City Public Schools will close its sole charter school, Kansas City Neighborhood Academy, an elementary school that opened in 2016.
Another elementary school, Pathway Academy, also announced that it will be closing.
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