This summer, following a teacher petition in June and updated cell-phone policies in surrounding districts, the USD497 school board decided to take a closer look at formalizing both the Free State and...
Free State recently introduced a chapter of National English Honor Society [NEHS] sponsored by English teachers, Kylee Johnston and Sophia Coen. Johnston and Coen worked to create the chapter with the...
Lawrence Public School Board’s Boundary Committee is discussing a revision to the high school boundary that currently resides on Bob Billings Parkway. The committee initially proposed four plans including...
The semicolon being used as a symbol for suicide awareness was popularized in 2013, when Project Semicolon was started as a way for people to express their struggles while choosing to persist. The semicolon...
Lilly Wall, News Editor-in-Chief
• September 30, 2024
Dear Reader,
As the first issue of the year lands at the end of September, it arguably hits the busiest month of the school year. The first month of school sports, homecoming week, childhood cancer...
Ember Klein, Online Editor-In-Chief
• September 30, 2024
At the end of the recent school year, members of the Green Team planted an annual fruit and vegetable garden as well as a native plant garden. The Green Team, formerly the Garden Club, advocates for environmental...
Simon Williams, Co-Online Editor-in-Chief
• September 17, 2024
I have grown up living in rural Jefferson County, Kansas, but have always identified my home town to be Lawrence. With family roots that run deep in both Rice and Sumner counties, I would label my sociocultural...
Imagine a class where math crosses with real world situations, not only solving for X, but creating it too. Requested by woodworking teacher Amanda Torbett and backed by math teacher Laura O’Neil, a...
Lawrence Public Schools recently received petitions from Lawrence educators and parents regarding a revision of the student handbook and more specifically cell phone use in the classroom. The petitions...
Lilly Wall, News Editor-in-Chief
• August 23, 2024
After six years of managing budgets, monitoring student success, and envisioning goals, Dr. Anthony Lewis has resigned as the USD 497 superintendent to take on a job in Durham, North Carolina. Lewis’s...
![Working on a project, sophomore Skyler Hansen examines one of the walls. Hansen explained that Geometry and Construction is usually divided up between two periods. “You do an hour of either geometry or construction, depending on what the teachers want to do at the beginning. Then the next hour, you do whatever you didn’t do in the first hour,” Hansen said. “In geometry, you’ll learn a specific set of [information], and in construction, you use that after you learn the geometry.”](https://www.fsfreepressonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Roust_GeoinCon8_27_24-3-1200x800.jpg)
