July 12, 2024
The USD 503 Board of Education renewed proposals for property liability, cyber liability and worker’s compensation insurance for the 2024-25 school year. While some relief was ...
June 26, 2024
Maggie Goedeke deferred an interview as she prepared on a recent day off to head out on her sailboat across the lake to a trailhead where she planned to hike to a glacial lake to...
June 13, 2024
Parsons USD 503 Assistant Superintendent Jeff Pegues presented a view of the district’s social emotional learning and attendance data to Board of Education members Monday. Socia...
June 12, 2024
While pressure is being put on the city by a few residents to rename Glenwood Park for Frederick Douglass, in memory of Douglass School which was razed in 1962, some questioned ...
May 28, 2024
States do not count high school students enlisting in the military or entering U.S. military academies towards measurements of post-secondary success and effectiveness after grad...
May 21, 2024
During a special retirement luncheon Monday, Parsons USD 503 recognize three retiring employees who have dedicated a combined 65 years to serving children in the district – Mike...
May 10, 2024
A group of Honor Flight students stood outside the south door of the Parsons High School cafeteria Saturday, and as an older gentleman approached one of the students immediately...
April 26, 2024
It was quiet inside the Youth Crisis Center with all the children gone to school, and Taylor Moreland sat at her desk working in a room across the hall from where her father, Ea...
April 25, 2024
Rick Geifer sat in his office chair last week and used the mouse to pull up the bus schedule on his computer screen for the remainder of the year. Beyond regular bus routes in ...
April 24, 2024
Parsons USD 503 was the recipient of two grants last night from the Parsons Area Community Foundation totaling $15,000. Parsons Middle School Student Council member Maris...
April 16, 2024
Two Parsons USD 503’s schools are the recipients of the Kansas Challenge Awards for student performance on the 2023 Kansas State Assessments. “We are pleased to award your di...
April 10, 2024
The Parsons Education Foundation (PEF) is supporting local education programs through providing 10 mini-grants to Parsons USD 503 teachers totaling $3,938.46. Each year teacher...
March 22, 2024
During her planning time Thursday morning, Tri-County Special Education Teacher Caitlin Barcus handed a young man a stack of papers to grade then sat down at her desk in her c...
March 22, 2024
USD 503 Superintendent Lori Ray presented information to the Board of Education Monday pertaining to the new law going into effect regarding open enrollment. Beginning in June,...
March 18, 2024
Large, vacuum sealed bags of hamburger and stew meat, stacked on end, now line shelves in the walk-in freezers at Parsons High School and Parsons Middle School. No big red bo...
March 7, 2024
Historically, parent-teacher conferences involve parents coming each semester to schools and listening to individual teachers talk about how a child is performing academically a...
March 4, 2024
Parsons is creating a Safe Routes to School Plan!
At the beginning of 2024, Parsons was awarded a Planning and Programming (P&P) grant from the Kansas Departm...
February 15, 2024
A three-quarter-scale Humvee that community and area business and industry helped Parsons High School students build over the course of more than a decade was gifted by the USD 50...
January 22, 2024
Up until his junior or senior year of high school Seth Martin was thinking of being a lawyer.
Taking debate and forensics he found he had a knack for engaging in in-depth, serio...
January 18, 2024
Every school day teachers are tasked with teaching classrooms filled with students with widely varying personalities and abilities, who all learn in different ways, at different p...