LINC has been a partner of the Center School District since 2007. LINC’s efforts include providing the Caring Communities Before & After School program at Boone and Center elementary schools and now at Indian Creek Elementary in the fall of 2019.
Dr. Yolanda Cargile is the district superintendent
Map of LINC Sites in the Center School District
The Hickman Mills, Center and North Kansas City school boards have elections April 2 and Grandview has a bond issue, joining other races and issues on the ballot including a vote a KC’s sports stadiums. See how to get info on candidates and forums.
The summer EBT food program for qualifying families with children is returning for Missourians in 2024, and will be a permanent program going forward, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today. The benefit will provide an extra $120 per child over three summer months.
From celebrating the Chiefs, to singing of Black History, meeting local farmers, putting on another Caring Communities Day, planting gardens, partnering in classrooms and joining in holiday festivities and much more — it’s been a fabulous year. Here’s our annual look back.
LINC’s eight-month old local food distribution program got a lot weightier for the holidays. The Local Food Purchase Assistance program added 540 hams and 25 turkeys to the 1,500 boxes of produce that went out to area families.
LINC Chess’ first tournament of the 2023-2024 season drew 142 students from throughout the area, representing 43 different schools. Here are some of the sights and sounds from the tournament held Dec. 9 at North Kansas City High School.
For all the statistical and historical reasons that measure the value of quality after-school programs, the music at Meadowmere Elementary School’s celebration in Grandview captured the heart of it all: “We are family . . .!”
Today, the classroom site was dancing space at Kansas City Young Audiences. But in the days ahead, the LINC staff aim to create scenes like this with the children in LINC’s Caring Communities after-school programs across the Kansas City area.
The Right to Counsel and Justice in the Schools programs programs are helping hundreds of families remain in their homes as a Kansas City movement empowering tenants faces a rise in eviction filings.
The question in the moment was: Has LINC and its partnership with Total Man CDC solved a healthy dinner gap in several area school programs? The answer, shown on the faces of children and teenagers, was happily clear. See what’s on the menu in LINC’s efforts in good nutrition.
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