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.

Get ready for Election Day, June 18, with Vote411.org

The next election day in Kansas City is on Tuesday, June 18. With the Vote411.org guide you can see the races on your ballot, compare candidates' positions side-by-side, and print out a "ballot" indicating your preferences as a reminder and take it with you to the polls on Election Day.

LINC ready to grow as Hickman Mills, Center prepare families for changing schools

LINC is working with Hickman Mills staff to help ease the families’ transitions as the district closes Johnson and Symington elementary schools and the freshman center this summer. LINC is also opening a new Caring Communities site at Indian Creek Elementary School in the Center School District for the 2019-2020 school year.

State offering relief to food stamp recipients who lost food in tornadoes, floods

Missourians who lost food purchased with their Food Stamp benefits due to a recent tornado or flood have until June 24 to report their loss to the Family Support Division and receive replacement benefits.

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.

'Game changing' bill passed to help more Missourians clear criminal records

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.

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.”

Human trafficking summit in KC to gather 'Companions on the Journey' against modern day slavery

People in the fight against human trafficking will gather for a community summit, “Companions on the Journey,” May 18 at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral

'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.

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.

Overwhelming stories flood 'Clear Your Record' expungement campaign in KC

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Have a criminal record? Expungement Day effort could help you clear it

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.

Survive and thrive; how KC charter Tolbert Academy made it 20 years

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.

250,000 Missouri children remain at risk: says KIDS COUNT 2019 report

Some 250,000 children at risk in Missouri, rates higher in Jackson County, says 2019 KIDS COUNT report

Carruth retiring; Southwick to lead Cooperating School Districts of Greater Kansas City

Shawnee Mission Deputy Superintendent Kenny Southwick to succeed retiring Gayden Carruth as executive director of the Cooperating School Districts of Greater Kansas City.