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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

Free Press Online
The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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Junior Donovan Young and sophomore Arlo March, students selected to be in the Ambassador Program, get to know their business partners before the start of the programs's second meeting. The students were selected based on counselor recommendations.

Male students, community leaders partner in pilot program

Kyra Haas and Fiona McAllister • February 7, 2015

As sophomore Diallo Jackson walked down the hall to the office with a pass from assistant principal Keith Jones in his hand, Jackson worried he might be in trouble. Before winter break, Jackson and...

At the beginning of the semester, the administration divided two freshman English classes into three single-gender classes. In January, the ACLU questioned the change, and the classes were promptly rearranged to be coeducational. "It [was] kind of different, I know that, but it [was] fun because it [was] with my friends and everything," freshman Tannner Cobb said.

Single-gender English 9 classes result in ACLU intervention

Kyra Haas and Maddie Birchfield • February 7, 2015

When freshman Aidan Dietz entered their seventh hour English 9 classroom on the first day of second semester, they were met with confused stares from their classmates. “At first people were looking...

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ACLU requests discontinuation of single-gender English classes

Ryan Liston, Online Editor in Chief • January 14, 2015

On Jan. 12, Superintendent Dr. Rick Doll received a letter from the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Legal Director Doug Bonney and Cooperating Attorney Amy Katz regarding the introduction...

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