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Lincoln Public Schools officials could have about $31 million more revenue at their disposal for the upcoming budgetÌý— an even bigger jump tha…

There are a few new rules this fall for the mass of humanity coursing through the Lincoln East High School hallways during the five minutes th…

A glimpse into Lincoln Public Schools' future — the most pressing needs for new schools, additions and upgrades to existing buildings in the n…

At Belmont Elementary School they talk a lot about having “grit.�

Choosing to go to Lincoln East and Lincoln High schools just got harder for students who don’t live in those attendance areas.

About 100 community members and Lincoln Public Schools staff met for the first time Tuesday in what will be a seven-month process to compile r…

Any new focus programs at Lincoln Public Schools should be embedded into the high schools and not at separate locations, a district task force…

In the midst of the white, ice-encased, traffic-gnarled mess that is Lincoln’s winter, Chuck Morgan is rising.

Lincoln Board of Education member Matt Schulte wants to change board policy to include the Pledge of Allegiance as part of the board meetings.

If the early work of a superintendent’s task force is any indication, Lincoln Public Schools is likely to ask the community to support buildin…

The Tri-Nuggets are going global.

Lincoln Public Schools officials want to hire a design team and construction manager to begin planning a new high school even though the decis…

Lincoln Public Schools could float a bond issue between $250 million and $290 million without raising the tax rate, the advisory group reviewi…

Jacque Rush addressed a full crowd in the Lincoln Southwest High School gym just after 7 p.m. Thursday as she introduced the opening of the Sc…

The Lincoln Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved Superintendent Steve Joel’s contract for next year -- which includes a base sal…

Lincoln Public Schools should build two new schools to serve kindergarten-eighth gradeÌý— a new concept for the district and a way to handle gr…

Salary increases, more teachers and three additional early childhood classrooms drive much of a $14.8 million increase in the proposed 2019-20…

The Lincoln Board of Education has its work cut out for it.

Liz Miller, who has been assistant principal at Lincoln East since 2008, has been named the new principal at Dawes Middle School.

Nebraska Board of Education member Robin Stevens had some thoughts on equity in education he shared with fellow board members last week.

Mother Nature may still be thinking “summerâ€� but the first real evidence of fall will make its appearance Monday morning when nearly 33,000 ki…

Lincoln Public Schools' proposed $458.6 million general fund budget made it through first reading Tuesday unscathed, bringing it within two we…

The Lincoln Board of Education got a long-awaited report on the building needs of the district TuesdayÌý— a document it will use as a basis for…

Lincoln Public Schools officials made the case Tuesday for a special mail-in bond election Feb. 11, a scenario they say would allow the distri…

Think of them as virtual fence-builders.

The Lincoln Board of Education delved into questions surrounding new high schools and athletic complexes, as well as the need to renovate exis…

In Emma Magsamen’s kindergarten class, students spend a good chunk of their mornings digging into the basics of the English language.

Scott Middle School students can now get lunch and breakfast with a touch of their fingers.

A need surfaces, a solution is proposed, and the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools swoops in to save the day.

A committee kicked off a nine-week campaign in support of the Lincoln Public Schools' $290 million bond issue Wednesday morning with the resul…

For years now, progress has slowly encroached onÌýDave and Joan Hergenrader's peace and quiet. But the couple knew nothing of Lincoln Public Schools' plans to buy nearby land until last month.

LPS has determined that there’s a need for more focus programs, but they should be embedded in existing high schools, not free-standing.

The two high schools that LPS plans to build will accommodate half as many students as the existing high schools but will be built so they can easily be expanded to hold 2,000 students.

Add two more high schools and something has to give, which is why, LPS officials say, a proposed $290 million bond issue includes about $10 million for shared athletic complexes.

The aftermath of a fire that destroyed the Lincoln Public Schools district office -- one of the city’s biggest fires -- is still playing out n…

Lincoln school district has spent more than $243 million over two decades to add geothermal systems and make other renovations to bring its schools up to date.

As it has in the last two bond elections, Lincoln Public Schools officials plan to use any savings from the bond issue to pay for projects on the district's 10-year building plan.

It looks as if Lincoln will be getting two new high schools in the coming years.

Lincoln Public Schools anticipates getting $15 million to $20 million less in state aid this year, the biggest reduction in a decade, which wi…

Lincoln public schools officials have spent months visiting high schools around the country to get ideas.

Five outstanding Lincoln Public Schools teachers will be honored today after being selected from 500 entries.

More than 20 people came to the Lincoln Board of Education meeting Tuesday making many of the same arguments made two years ago when the school resource officer program was expanded.

The program will offer dual-credit courses focused on the areas of food, water, energy and societal systems offere through the UNL College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.Ìý

LPS would get $2.3 million in addition to the 18.7 acres in west Lincoln, or the developer could opt out of the trade and LPS would buy the west Lincoln land for $786,240.

Pyrtle was among four schools in Nebraska recognized by the U.S. Department of Education this year. The school was recognized for overall academic performance.

The high school in northwest Lincoln is one of two new high schools LPS is constructing with the $290 million bond that voters passed in February. It is expected to open fall 2022.

Grading work will begin soon on the site for the high school near 70th and Saltillo Road. The same work is already done on site in northwest Lincoln because that high school will open first, in 2022.

A comparison of standardized test scores shows that LPS third through eighth graders lost few to no reading skills during the rapid shift to remote learning this spring, though they lost more math skills.

The seven bids are for work on two high schools being built as part of the $290 million bond issue approved by voters in February.Ìý

Half of the 28 para-educators who work for LPS' Independence Academy for special education students were gone because of COVID-19 or other medical reasons.

Site development of the new high schools will be twice what LPS estimated, putting district $1 million over budget, a price officials think they can save during construction.

The Northeast program is the sixth in special education to temporarily shift to remote learning because of the large number of staff and student quarantines.Ìý

LPS decided to offer the one-year dedicated remote learning classes to kindergarten through second grade because of high interest, but district officials recommend against it for children that young.

Combined, the retirees served Lincoln Public Schools for 262 years and opened two new elementary schools, closed one longtime elementary and served millions of meals to students annually.

LPS will accept nominations through Feb. 28, when the suggestions will be forwarded to three committees that will pick their favorite and recommend it to the Lincoln Board of Education.

The new principals will replace retiring principals at Sheridan and Kooser elementary schools and Mickle Middle School.

Hartley Elementary Principal Jeff Rust will become Adams Elementary's principal in an annual shifting prompted by several retiring principals at Lincoln Public Schools.Ìý

Casey Fries, associate principal at Lincoln East, will be responsible for hiring staff, organizing schedules and launching the new program for 785 remote learners at LPS.

Dawes Middle School student Bella Brice nominated her science teacher Kenneth Pyle for the annual Thank You Teacher Award because his class made coming back to school easier after her mom's death.

Several retirements at LPS means a number of schools will get new principals, including these five appointments announced Friday.

Teachers will get no raises beyond those in the regular salary schedule, a reflection of district budget constraints and state aid reductions, LPS officials said.

Committees have narrowed down a list of nearly 2,500 suggestions from community members to several finalists for each new school building. The Lincoln Board of Education will make the final selections.

Ada Robinson, who taught at Clinton for more than 30 years, garnered more than 90 nominations from community members.ÌýLetters from former students and colleagues talked about her devotion to students.

Students who will be some of the high school's first students voted. Of the student votes, 36.1% chose Lincoln Northwest, 33% went for Air Park, while Susan La Flesche Picotte and Lincoln West picked up 16.9% and 14% of the vote.

Ada Robinson is a beloved teacher who spent more than 30 years at Clinton Elementary School.

Both Kathy Danek and Don Mayhew won sixth terms to the board.

Last month, the Lincoln Board of Education approved the purchase of more than 600 Chromebooks that can function as both a traditional laptop and a tablet for the remote school, which students can still enroll in by Friday.

"The young man sitting next to me actually leaned over, and he goes 'Oh, my gosh, that's you,'" Bobbie Ehrlich said. "I was shocked."

As of now, the program will still be available to elementary and middle schools students who have signed up and are approved.Ìý

LPS, which has more than 40,000 students and employs more than 60 school librarians, would be required to employ only one half-time librarian for the entire district if the state's accreditation rules are changed.

In a typical year, the programming is only offered at Title I schools, CLC director Nola Derby-Bennett said. But with summer school being offered to all K-12 students this year, it made sense to expand the district's afternoon offerings.Ìý

LPS officials stressed that students who already attend a school won't have to change schools, even if boundaries shift. Students will also be allowed to go to a school their sibling already attends.

North Star teacher Shania Middagh is concerned the support she received won't be offered to other student-parents after LPS decided to close the child care center there.

Lincoln Public Schools is moving away from Reading Recovery, its longtime reading intervention program aimed at catching up first graders struggling with reading and writing through one-on-one lessons.

Seven students from Lincoln had perfect scores: Jack Amen of Lincoln High; Aidan Hand, Andrzej Korlacki, Joshua Lee and Kenneth Ou of Lincoln East; Clare Oldenburg of Pius X; and Jonathan Xing of Lincoln Christian.

LPS is using over $1.5 million from a second wave of federal relief dollars to fund the summer school expansion including $930,000 for the elementary level and $450,000 for middle schools.

The meals, offered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Summer Food Service Program, are available to children ages 1-18 at sites around the state.

Lincoln property owners will pay $1.227 per $100 of valuation — or about a penny less than last year — to fund the general fund, bond debt payments and Educational Service Unit.

The Lincoln Board of Education bypassed its traditional two-reading format to approve the bid forÌýTriMark Hockenbergs to equip kitchens at Northwest and Standing Bear High.

Unvaccinated staff members, volunteers and visitors will still be required to mask up, while face coverings will be optional for fully vaccinated staff and students.

"It's a milestone," LPS Director of Operations Scott Wieskamp said. "You know you have sort of the heavy lifting done."

The largest of the bids is for $830,000 to Lincoln architectural firm Clark & Enersen for its design work already completed at the shared athletic complexes at Lincoln Northwest and Standing Bear High.Ìý

James Hill, who teaches Spanish at Southwest, is this year's recipient of the Christa McAuliffe Prize for Courage and Excellence in Education.

LPS officials say the estimated $150,000-$200,000 cost to onboard the sport is undoable in a year when the athletic department has had to slash where it can as part of cuts to the district's general fund.

The boundaries provide an outline of what enrollment officials expect at new, smaller Northwest and Standing Bear high schools.

It was one of five schools to earn the Blue Ribbon honor in Nebraska.

Advancement Via Individual Determination, or AVID, a nationwide college readiness program piloted at Lincoln Northeast last year, was expanded to Mickle, Dawes and Culler middle schools and Lincoln High in 2021.

Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates has conducted over 1,500 executive searches in the past 30 years, including landing superintendents in 47 of the 100 largest school districts in the U.S.

A partnership between the Lincoln Public Schools Foundation and the Lancaster County Community Corrections Department aims to ensure that all students can receive driver's education through a new scholarship program.

Officers responded to 275 calls at LPS middle schools and 474 at high schools. Of those calls, 20% resulted in a citation, which is down from an average of 31% in previous years.

Enhancements projects at the district's six existing high schools will upgrade instructional space for art, family and consumer science and career and technical education classes.

As a whole, LPS students' proficiencies in English and math were above the state average, according to scores released Monday. But remote learners fared worse than their in-person peers.

The bid for the project that will add a gym and expand a multipurpose cafeteria at the school is $1.3 million over budget, which officials say reflects the current labor climate and supply-chain logjams.

Classes will be out Jan. 21, Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 so teachers can work on lesson plans and help catch up quarantined students who've missed instruction.

A transportation employee noticed the student walking through a parking lot at the district's bus yard Tuesday morning.

LPS’ decision to temporarily close school on Fridays has forced child care centers already stretched thin by the pandemic and parents to make last-minute arrangements to care for students who would otherwise be in school.Ìý

Only 20 candidates stayed in the race for the superintendent job at LPS, which opened last fall when Steve Joel announced he would retire at the end of the school year.

The idea of ending the test has gained steam among some lawmakers, educators and teachers college professors. Support has beenÌýboosted by a teacher shortage that's been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Peter Licata's leadership experience during booming growth in Palm Beach County — where he oversees 65,000 students in the district's south region -- is something he says he can bring to LPS as the next superintendent.

Antwan Wilson served three years as superintendent in Oakland, California, and then in Washington, D.C., where controversy cut short his tenure.

Open positions include both full- and part-time jobs, including paraeducators, food service workers, food service manager trainees, custodians and substitute health technicians.

Three top administrators and four principals at LPS announced their plans Thursday to retire this year.

The Sioux City superintendent is no stranger to Lincoln, having studied at UNL, where he played drums in the marching band, before becoming a teacher at LPS.

Thompson, the Norfolk Public Schools superintendent, is one of four finalists for the LPS top job.

The man attending an invite-only forum left the building when contacted but was later allowed to return once he secured the gun off the property, district officials said.

Only 41 incoming seniors filed the paperwork to attend Northwest, along with 223 freshmen, 77 sophomores and 78 juniors.

The work will include repaving and widening South 70th between Carger Lane and Saltillo Road to include turn lanes into Standing Bear, as well as a roundabout at Carger Lane.

While officials never expected Lincoln Northwest, one of two new smaller high schools, to be bursting at the seams when it opened, the lower enrollment figures released this week weren't anticipated.

Board members said they "agonized" over the decision because of the strength of the finalists, which included John Schwartz of Norris; Josh Fields of Seward; and Jami Jo Thompson of Norfolk.

Lincoln Public Schools is doing some administrative reshuffling to fill vacancies at Cavett, Humann and Wysong elementary schools.

The Lincoln Board of Education selected Paul Gausman as the district's next leader during its meeting Tuesday night.

Board member Kirk Penner read passages from several books that depict sex acts at the board's February meeting.

Sue Cassata will serve as the first principal of Standing Bear High School -- the city's newest high school in southeast Lincoln named after the trailblazing Ponca leader -- when it opens in 2023.

Meet this year's Thank You Teacher award winners who made a difference in their students' lives.

Daniel Yoo moved to Nebraska from South Korea in 2018 and eventually got involved in Scott Middle School's equity club and the LPS Scholar Equity Cadre.

LPS will spend 4.11% more on salary and benefits for teachers next year, which includes a base raise and additional pay increases based on longevity and professional development.

LPS partnered with Stanford University on a study that looked at how students spot misinformation online. The findings are making national headlines.

Casey Fries will take over for Sue Cassata at East, while Megan Kroll will be the next principal at North Star, replacing Ryan Zabawa.Ìý

The president and vice president of the Nebraska State Board of Education said Friday they're in no rush to revive the controversial health-education standards the board put on ice last September.

As part of the effort to combat Nebraska's teacher shortage, a program proposed in the LegislatureÌýwould provide first-year educators up to $5,000 a year for as many as five years.

A Chicago-based entrepreneur is offering $1,000 to Black Omaha high school students who sign up for a calculus class and pass a test.ÌýRegistration closes on March 15.

Celeste Cruz Rivera of Lincoln East (poetry) and Amani Al-Hamedia (entertainment) and Madison Ramey (serious) of Lincoln Southwest won individual Class A events.

Lunch and breakfast has been free for all students at Lincoln Public Schools during the pandemic, but now the waivers are set to expire in June.

Last Monday's Aspiring Diverse Educators Symposium was just one example of how LPS hopes to diversify its teaching force.

The middle school at 5130 Colfax Ave. was honored during a surprise ceremony Friday morning. Dawes will receive a $5,000 check to be applied toward a school-related project of the staff's choice.

New political groups in Nebraska are endorsing candidates in hopes of influencing local school board races.

For the first time since the pandemic started, Scott's annual Make-A-Difference Fair was back to the busy, bustling event the school is used to.

The LPS calendar committee has discussed whether the practice of taking Good Friday off continues to make sense, but it would likely be a while before any change occurs.

In a symbolic gesture imparting good health for the future, ironworkers in neon-green vests and white hard hats put the last major steel piece of Standing Bear High School into place on a windy Friday morning.

On Thursday, students were prepping for the Electronphonic concert when new LPS Superintendent Paul Gausman came in, climbed onto a drum set and walked students through some beats.

The Milken Family Foundation last week honored two Nebraska teachers for excellence, surprising each one with a $25,000 award.

From mental health care to robots, here is a look at how some Nebraska school districts are spending their share ofÌý$492 million in federal COVID-19 rescue aid.

The new focus program — a collaboration between LPS and UNL's College of Business that will start when Standing Bear opens in 2023 — is set to include dual-credit courses and pathways in areas such as accounting, finance, marketing, economics and supply chain management.

After reading "Seedfolks," a book about a group of immigrants who bond over a community garden, English language learner students at Lincoln Northeast were inspired to discover their own green thumbs.

The prestigious award honors one Lincoln Public Schools teacher each year who has shown outstanding effort to be innovative and creative in the field.

As a part of the deal, the stadium near Northwest High School will be named Union Bank Stadium for 20 years, the school district said. Lincoln Northwest is set to open this fall atÌý4901 W. Holdrege St.Ìý

The first draft of new math standards for Nebraska schools is a tweak, not an overhaul, of existing ones.

The proposed $489.8 million for 2022-23 unveiled Tuesday is a $26.9 million increase from last year. The property tax levy is essentially unchanged.

Perry Reid Construction of Lincoln is suing Great Plains Sports Flooring of Elkhorn for $110,000, alleging it failed to install wood floors at new gyms at Lux and Scott middle schools in a timely manner.

Superintendent Paul Gausman announced Tuesday that LPS will use a "targeted model" to start the school year in which decisions on masking will be made building by building.Ìý

It’s time for Nebraska schools to “restore normal,� but that doesn’t mean returning to the old ways of doing things, Commissioner of Education Matt Blomstedt told education leaders.

While work obviously remains, officials are clear on this point: Students will be walking the halls of Lincoln Northwest next month. What they'll find is a building defined by collaborative, open-concept spaces.

Superintendent Paul Gausman on Friday unveiled the district's return-to-school plan, which spells out its pandemic procedures for the upcoming school year.Ìý

General fund dollars go toward paying for the officers from the Lincoln Police Department who are assigned to work in schools. This year’s agreement is 4.95% higher than last year’s.

In some cases the barcodes — used to check out at lunch and for attendance — weren't scannable or were on the wrong side.

The new superintendent will be expected to present a report to the board in April 2023 detailing a framework and timeline for LPS' next five-year strategic plan.

Adams and Humann are two of five schools in Nebraska to earn the recognition, which is based on overall academic success or progress in closing student achievement disparities.

Two candidates competing for a seat on the Nebraska State Board of Education sparred over student test scores at a forum where they were asked about hot-button education issues.

Eric Weber, associate superintendent of instruction, is on leave for the remainder of the school year. Vann Price, supervisor of secondary personnel services, will take over.

District officials are looking to make Friday, Dec. 9, and Tuesday, Feb. 21, non-student days that would allow to staff to catch up on plan time.

LPS has earmarked roughly $1.8 million in depreciation dollars — essentially money saved from other projects — to resurface the tracks at all high schools.

Like many of the items on the LPS menu, cinnamon rolls are made by scratch using fresh ingredients at central kitchens before being shipped to schools.

Earlier this month, 500 teachers and support staff were trained on how to conduct home visits. It's one tool intended to help curb student misbehavior and increase family engagement.

Amplify CKLA -- a new K-6 reading curriculum -- comes with a $7.7 million price tag.Ìý