Get ready everybody. The 2nd Annual LINC Caring Communities Day coming June 10 promises more fun, more family resources, more games, prizes, music, dancing and lots of food. A thousand faces. A thousand smiles. Mark your calendar and Click here to take a look at last year's video, story and photo gallery.
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Need help finding low-cost access to TV entertainment and information? Or help getting affordable Internet? A free workshop will help households learn about inexpensive ways to get Internet and online streaming services — and get free Google Chromecast.
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The idea that chess is dominated by men is being left to history. LINC’s chess program — as LINC Executive Vice President Janet Miles-Bartee declared at the last girls tourney before the pandemic — is full of “girl power.” See the latest results and sign up for the boys and girls tournament May 13 at kclinc.org/chess.
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Get ready. School board races, city council seats and proposed taxes on legal marijuana await your consideration at the polls April 4.
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Before the pandemic, Missouri had only three provisionally accredited and three unaccredited districts. Now, more than 100 scored low enough to be classified as provisionally accredited, though their status will remain unchanged this year.
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This is the kind of experience Brandie Schmidt had in mind when she created the display of the KC Black History project and books for residents at Kansas City’s Linwood Gardens.
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Get ready for LINC’s next chess tournament March 11 by watching the FOX4 feature on LINC chess master and Missouri Hall of Famer Zeb Fortman II. See how to sign up.
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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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By a 6-to-1 decision, the Missouri Charter Public School Commission voted to revoke Genesis School’s charter Feb. 15 — a decision that Genesis expects it will appeal to the state school board.
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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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A new resource guide is available to help the adults and youth in schools save lives — by talking about suicide, knowing the warnings of suicide, knowing where and how to seek comfort and hope. And knowing that help is always a three-digit phone call away — by simply dialing 9-8-8.
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This spring, Missouri will resume verifying the eligibility of people who are receiving Medicaid, and the state wants to make sure everyone who is eligible gets renewed. Here’s what you need to do.
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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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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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