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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Tax season is here, and for many taxpayers free help is standing by. Anyone who earned less than $60,000 or who is 60 or older can get help from volunteer tax preparers. Both the preparation help and the cost of filing is free. Here’s how to get it.
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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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Kansas City Public Schools’ plan to close schools is taking a big step back. Only two schools — Longfellow and Troost elementaries — are slated for closing at this time, according to revised recommendations by the administration. Central High School among those schools taken off the closings list.
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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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Razors hummed. Boys winced. Hairstylists volunteering their time eyeballed precise trims as they made their holiday haircuts perfect. Parents loved the scene at LINC at King Elementary School on the Friday before the holiday break.
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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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The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners has named three finalists to be the city’s next chief of police, and is hosting a public forum to meet the candidates Saturday, Dec. 10, at 10 a.m. at the Robert J. Mohart Multipurpose Center, 3200 Wayne Ave.
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LINC’s area chess tournament returns to North Kansas City High School Dec. 3, and the deadline to register online for all age groups is Nov. 30 at noon. Register now at kclinc.org/chess.
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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 Marketplace health plans — commonly known as Obamacare — are now open for enrollment for 2023. Open enrollment runs from Nov. 1 to Jan. 15, but you need to enroll by Dec. 15 to have coverage starting Jan. 1. Here’s how to get help signing up.
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Fort Osage Superintendent Jason Snodgrass was named superintendent of the year by the Missouri Association of School Administrators, but the seventh-year leader sees the award as an honor for the entire district. “This recognition is truly a reflection of all of the good work taking place in our classrooms,” he said.
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