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Step by step, the Fort Osage School District keeps working through that list of priority projects set in the district’s community-driven master plan. The latest: Groundbreaking for a new gymnasium.
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This is a complicated business, closing schools. The Kansas City Public Schools has created an online exercise that invites everyone to take a turn sorting out difficult choices that lie ahead in its Blueprint 2030 plan to shape the district’s future.
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An interactive state map can help Missouri families find emergency food sites to help children get meals during the months that schools are out. Families can bring their children to these sites and receive meals regardless of income. There are no registrations or fees.
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“It’s time,” Superintendent Mark Bedell said, as he prepares after six years to leave a district that has regained full accreditation and is positioned for a strong transition and greater achievement with Interim Superintendent Jennifer Collier. “Brighter days are ahead.”
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Kansas City history is making national history. The American Association for State and Local History has named the Kansas City Black History Project as a 2022 winner of its “Award of Excellence,” honoring the work of LINC, the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America
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“Do your favorite dance move!” was the Simon Says command, and in a moment LINC children launched into an dazzling array of gyrations, spins and leg kicks — as varied and entertaining as LINC’s menu of summer recreational and educational fun.
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The summer of 2022 has arrived with refreshing joy and possibilities — but also with a heavy air of fear. The hot season has long brought out the best and the worst of the fellowship that brings neighborhoods together and the violence and neglect that endangers children and families. Here’s what KC is doing about it and how you can help.
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Beginning Wednesday (June 1), all Kansas City tenants in eviction cases will have the right to an attorney in Housing Court. The new ordinance, passed six months ago, continues what has been a rising tide in the support of renters who have long been overmatched in legal proceedings with property owners.
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LINC’s Caring Communities capped off the 2021-22 school year with a host of field days, talent shows and parties across the 52 LINC Caring Communities. See our gallery — and sign up for summer!
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Start your reading engines, kids. The Kansas City Public Library and the Mid-Continent Public Library are stocking up again at neighborhood branches near you with adventurous, beautiful themes — and prizes — to inspire summer reading.
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“It is our fervent hope that the report can be useful in providing healing stitches in the mending of our community that too often has been frayed at the seams,” said listening sessions co-facilitator Rev. Bob Hill.
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Here comes summer. It’s time for families that are planning to have children in summer school to pre-enroll for LINC’s before- and after-school programs. We’ll be ready with games, activities and fun learning opportunities at 15 school sites in our partner districts.
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Hot dogs, carnival games, fire trucks, prizes, money-saving home services, help with rent, utilities, internet and more — for sure, the inaugural LINC Morning Star Caring Communities Fair June 11 aims to entertain and to serve.
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A third round of free home Covid-19 tests are now available online at covidtests.gov. Look for updated Covid-19 vaccination and testing opportunities in the Kansas City area at kclinc.org/covid19
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Missouri announced the launch of a public website to help guide access to Missouri's American Rescue Plan Act funds. The website reports how state ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Funds are being spent and also provides information on how to apply for funds.
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“It really gave us a new enlightenment of how to teach,” Young Professor’s co-owner Paula Smith said of LINC’s training and consultation program for Missouri’s Infant Toddler Specialist Network.
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Veolele needed a lawyer. Because of LINC’s support for the Hickman Mills and Center Justice in the Schools program with Legal Aid of Western Missouri, her pursuit of guardianship over her grandchildren became one of 279 cases the program has opened since 2020.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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