SPRINGFIELD More than 7,000 students will visit Illinois state parks, natural areas, museums and other natural resources ...

Student safety is embedded in literally every step we take... it will always remain our top priority.” ~ Lawrence ...

A Prairie Park Elementary School parent has requested an external audit, broader transparency and expanded parent support ...

Lawrence school board members communicated support for families at Prairie Park Elementary, and a parent called for greater ...

Lawsuit, brought by parent of a student allegedly sexually abused by school speech pathologist Mark Gridley, holds Lawrence USD 497 liable in the assault.

The lawsuit states that while the student was attending Prairie Park Elementary School, she was sexually abused by Mark Gridley, who was then a speech pathologist employed by the district.

Hundreds of riders on horseback and in wagons will gallop into Memorial Park on Friday ... meeting the Prairie View Trail Ride as they rested for lunch at Harris Elementary in Acres Homes on ...

An employee at Prairie Park Elementary School in Lawrence, shown here in a July 2024 Google Maps image, has been accused of sexually assaulting at least eight students, Lawrence police said on ...

Lawrence police are asking prosecutors to file more charges against the former Prairie Park Elementary School speech pathologist charged with sexually abusing a student, now alleging that he had eight ...

Fennelly said Thursday that all of the allegations made against Gridley thus far were for incidents that took place at Prairie Park Elementary School, the only site in the district he was assigned ...

Mark Gridley, 60, worked as a speech and language pathologist at Prairie Park Elementary School before his arrest. He’s worked in the Lawrence School District since 2021. Lawrence police ...