Margaret Reist
Lincoln Journal Star
Lincoln, NE, United States
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12 LPS staff quarantining after 3 teachers test positive
Even before the first day of school, three Lincoln Public Schools teachers working in their buildings have tested positive for COVID-19. → Read More
Moore Middle School students get children's books translated for English language learners
The Friday morning event in the West Lincoln Elementary School library started with this: Lily Ardinger Stibal, Matthew Killham and Darian Kauk like to read. → Read More
Documentary exploring schools' efforts to address student mental health premiering
Nebraska Loves Public Schools’ newest film tackles one of the biggest issues teachers and administrators say they face today: students' mental health issues. → Read More
Lincoln High one of eight public schools nationwide honored as 'schools of opportunity'
Lincoln High School is one of eight U.S. public high schools honored as a “School of Opportunity” by the National Education Policy Center. → Read More
Lincoln middle schoolers, now wearing wrist monitors, making big gains in fitness
In the Schoo Middle School gym these days, just how hard students are working is no longer a matter of interpretation. → Read More
Change in voting for Lincoln High homecoming royalty made to be more inclusive
This year’s homecoming royalty at Lincoln High assumed their respective thrones through a gender-neutral voting system that school officials hope is more inclusive. → Read More
Nebraska childcare providers face low wages, other challenges
Nebraska’s day care providers and early childhood educators face low wages, a lack of benefits and high stress and often aren't sufficiently educated, according to the latest study by the → Read More
Three years after pool accident, former LPD officer building relationships in northwest Lincoln school
Bella Cox took notice of the new entrance monitor at Kooser Elementary almost immediately when she came back to school after winter break in January. → Read More
LPS to extend high school library hours for students who need internet access
Lincoln Public School students without internet access at home will be able to use their high school libraries later in the day to do homework. → Read More
'Textbook' redefined to include digital material private school students can borrow
Private school students came a step closer Friday to being able to borrow digital textbooks from public schools. → Read More
State plans to help schools improve focus on culture, instruction and stability
The Nebraska Department of Education wants to find ways to boost enrollment at Loup County Public Schools, to stabilize the administrative turnover and tumult at Santee Public Schools and help → Read More
Free- and reduced-price lunch numbers questioned in state audit
A state audit of the Nebraska Department of Education concluded that using the National School Lunch Program to determine school and district poverty levels remains unreliable and the Legislature should → Read More
A wedding, a walking track and the icing on the cake
The icing on the cake. → Read More
LPS board approves $14.5 million in new projects
The Lincoln Board of Education Tuesday approved spending the $14.5 million left over from the projects paid for with proceeds from the 2014 bond issue to update an elementary school, → Read More
LIBA criticizes LPS board for lack of tax relief in proposed budget
The Lincoln Independent Business Association went on record Tuesday criticizing the Lincoln Board of Education for not lowering the tax rate on its proposed $401.2 million budget. → Read More
Audit of special education suggests teachers who know core subjects key to raising achievement
Special education students need more time to master core subjects like reading and math and teachers with expertise in those subjects should be teaching them, according to an audit of → Read More
Nuernberger Education Center ready for students this fall
Eighty middle school students will start the school year at the newly renovated Nuernberger Education Center, a space double the size of the old building and designed for students with → Read More
Suicide prevention signs going up in city, UNL parking garages
About 250 suicide prevention signs will soon be installed in 12 city and five University of Nebraska-Lincoln parking garages -- fulfilling a goal of a coalition formed in the wake → Read More
Prairie Hill teacher learning Spanish in Mexico; LPS summer school has record enrollment
Lizze Bartz loves Spanish. → Read More
LPS bilingual liaison committed to education here, and in South Sudan
Tosh Riek Jock has few memories of his home in South Sudan, but the ones he has are vivid, stark. → Read More