Making moves: LINC chess tourney at Smith-Hale

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.

Report: Aid for rent, utilities served low-income households; LINC knows 'It was no accident'

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.

Remembering LINC commissioner and Health Forward Foundation attorney Mark Flaherty

Mark G. Flaherty, a LINC commissioner, lawyer and founding member of the Health Forward Foundation, died peacefully at his Kansas City home April 27. He was 72.

Remake Learning Days offers family fun across KC

Here they come again. Remake Learning Days-Kansas City are back with opportunities for families to create, invent and experience hands-on learning at a host of programs sites and schools May 6-16.

Watch us dance! LINC's Prom Night at Ervin puts on a show

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.

National Campaign for Grade Level Reading honors the 'indefatigable" Bert Berkley

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.

LINC Commission meeting Monday April 18th

The LINC Commission will meet Monday, April 18th in an online meeting that starts at 4 pm

This is the published agenda. A potential closed session is listed on the revised agenda.

Here’s a link to the meeting booklet.

Blueprint 2030: Community chats to consider scenarios for future of KC Public Schools

Kansas City Public Schools’ plans for a changing school system now have scenarios to look at — and it’s your turn to tell the district what you think. The district is scheduling several opportunities for the public to see and give input on what the district team is now imagining from academics to programs.

Former LINC staffer, pastor elected as first Black Independence School Board member

A former LINC part-time staffer made history election night. The Rev. Anthony Mondaine won a seat on the Independence School Board April 5 and will serve as the district’s first Black representative.

Election results: NKC school measures win, KC questions pass; school boards decided

School district funding in North Kansas City and ballot questions in Kansas City all passed with ease in final results from Election Day April 5. Voters also decided close school board races in several of LINC’s partner school districts.

Vote 411: Your one-stop election information shop

School board seats are up for grabs April 5. Bond issues for many of you. Health levies and sewer bonds for others. The Vote 411 web site by the League of Women Voters gathers the information you need, for this and future elections.

Voters to decide renewal of KC's safety net community healthcare levy April 5

Kansas City’s healthcare safety net needs voters’ approval April 5 to continue its role in making sure everyone — including the poor and uninsured — has access to emergency and preventative services.

Hartman LINC student's 'Black is Beautiful' joins KCPS Sankofa oratory prize winners

“Black,” said Hartman Elementary School student Alaundra Anderson, “. . . is as beautiful as two sisters walking hand in hand . . . as wading in a pond on a hot summer day . . . as you holding your baby for the very first time . . .”

Magical Family Summit delights families, shines on Hickman Mills' community partnerships

“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.”

NKC Schools' bond/levy issues highlight April 5 election with area school board races

For the second time in two years, the growing North Kansas City School District is asking voters to approve no-tax-increase ballot measures. NKC’s bond issue and levy transfer highlight election day April 5 along with a host of important school board races across most of LINC’s partner districts.

Fort Osage State of the District, 2022: 'Going above and beyond'

Thanks to students, staff and the community “going above and beyond,” Fort Osage has overcome many challenges to stay on course for a “wonderful” 2022, Superintendent Jason Snodgrass said in his annual State of the District address.

Get in the game: LINC K-12 chess tournament returns in-person March 5

It’s time to enroll. LINC’s chess tournament is returning in-person March 5 at William Chrisman High School with divisions for children of all ages. Preregister by March 2.

Urban TEC drives an 'HBCU Girl's' rebel mission

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.

Hickman Mills Family Summit ready for in-person return

As yet another refreshing sign we’re emerging from Covid’s winter, the annual Hickman Mills Family Summit is planning to return as an in-person event March 5.

For those who 'blazed a trail,' new KC Black history website reaches deeper to teach, inspire

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.