
October 29, 2025
Is graffiti an art or a crime? Students in Jennifer Ramirez’s English class recently got to debate that question as they entered a unit on argumentative writing. They have read mu...

October 27, 2025
Thanks to the efforts of one Parsons High School junior, members of the C.A.M.P. Club and other students had the opportunity to learn more about acclaimed lawyer and social justic...

October 24, 2025
Lori English has worked as a bus monitor for only one month, but says she enjoys being around little kids again. "All mine are grown up" she said. Outside of work, she enjoys d...

October 24, 2025
Rick Giefer is the Director of Transportation for Parsons USD 503 and the one responsible for keeping the school buses rolling daily for routes and all activities. Giefer stepped...

October 23, 2025
Neil Neil Shelley has been a bus driver for the district for one year. When not driving bus he is a full-time IT person working remotely for a manufacturing company "back home" in...

October 22, 2025
Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely, but their role goes deeper than that. Drivers and mo...

October 21, 2025
Parsons High School drafting students met with city of Parsons officials to update them on where things stand and discuss next steps in Phase I of the construction of the Five Pat...

October 21, 2025
Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely, but their role goes much deeper. Drivers and monitors ...

October 20, 2025
Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely. Drivers and monitors are the first people in the distr...

October 20, 2025
Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely, but their roles extend deeper. Drivers and monitors a...

October 20, 2025
National School Bus Safety Week is Oct. 20-24, and USD 503 wants to help insure the safety of its bus drivers, monitors, and students, as well as motorists sharing the roadways wi...

October 20, 2025
Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely, but their roles go much deeper. Drivers and monitors a...

October 15, 2025
At Monday's regular meeting of the USD 503 Board of Education, the instructional coach for
Lincoln shared the good news that the percentage of students entering Lincoln “kinderga...

September 9, 2025
Enrollment ebbs and flows year-to-year, and while figures are still very fluid with students coming and going almost daily, this year Parsons USD 503 is seeing a decline in enrol...

August 28, 2025
In what may be a first-of-its-kind partnership, Magnum Systems is working with Parsons High School (PHS) to give drafting students a direct look at how engineers collaborate to d...

August 19, 2025
From a young age, Dana Vietti envisioned herself in medicine. Like many children, her dreams shifted with time — first to marine biology, then to teaching, and eventually to glob...

August 12, 2025
After years of deferring maintenance on some high cost projects to manage a slew of others, Parsons USD 503 is faced with no longer being able to delay repairing/replacing roofs....

August 11, 2025
USD 503 invites the community to join us in welcoming both new and returning educators to the district this year. Eric Swanson and his wife Teri Swanson are returning to Parso...

August 4, 2025
Dear Parents or Guardians, This school year, the USD 503 School District will be using a new parent app called Stopfinder for all families needing USD 503 transportation services...

August 4, 2025
To better serve students and accommodate families in Parsons, USD 503 is adding 10 new bus stops this year. USD 503 Transportation Director Rick Giefer said change in regulatio...
