Community Survey Launched to Collect Feedback Lawton Public Schools (LPS) is launching a new strategic planning initiative this fall, beginning with a survey opportunity to hea...

Excavators, bulldozers and dump trucks were running to and fro at Whittier Elementary School on Sept. 14 as they moved materials from one place to another. No, a major constructi...

Kywaun Leaston and Kydin Howie make the perfect team: Howie is the salesman; Leaston, the moneyman. Together, they run the snack cart that makes Fridays more cheerful for the stu...

The new residential district manager for Chartwells hit the ground running, already making plans to fully implement changes that Lawton Public Schools’ new food services program w...

Weeds are dying and inclusion is sprouting during Sprout and Shout Fridays at Eisenhower High School. Sprout and Shout Fridays is an offshoot of the Eisenhower Partners Club whic...

Jennifer Hanna brings a variety of “hats” to her efforts to help educators recognize the challenges faced by students who are military dependents. Hanna, assistant principal at E...

Game On. MacArthur Middle School used actual games – sidewalk chalk, boards and cards, kickball – to stress the school’s theme this year while emphasizing the importance of tryin...

It was an experiment of which Leonardo da Vinci himself would have been proud. Almost 550 years after the great engineer and scientist sketched out his idea for a parachute, stud...

The Cafe Read a Latte opened for business on Friday, featuring a menu of book titles to interest hard core bibliophiles and lighter fare for those who just wanted to whet their ap...

More than flowers are blooming in Sandra Dunn’s art room at Eisenhower Middle School. Her students are blooming as well as they inspect the vases of sunflowers set before them. T...

It was a tough day to be a potato or a plastic army man at the Lawton Public Schools STEM professional development training. One got impaled by foreign objects and another was dro...

LPS Families: Please take a few minutes to click the link and select the appropriate grade level to watch an important video about the Title I program in your child's school and y...

Bright yellow school buses, lined up four and five abreast in the parking lot of Cameron University Stadium early Wednesday, looked as if they were waiting for the green flag to d...

Lawton Public Schools is making it easier for parents to keep tabs on children when they ride district school buses. LPS has begun advertising the Stopfinder app, which will allo...

New school clothes — check. School supplies purchased — check. Class schedule picked up — check. Fresh haircut — check. While mom or dad may have provided the new clothes and ...

Janice Carter has joined Lawton Public Schools as assistant superintendent of Educational and Student Services. She will provide leadership and oversight for all departments unde...

Lawton educators have re-discovered a document signed by Douglass Learning Center’s namesake, Frederick Douglass. What is now Douglass Learning Center at East Gore Boulevard and ...

Katie Moon wants to give her students a sample of the traditional arts and crafts Native Americans enjoyed. That meant the fifth graders got to play in clay and make ribbon shirt...

Artemis enjoyed going inside and outside at will while Oreo just wanted a better look at everything. Artemis and Oreo were two of the 19 sheep and three goats who moved into the ...

Lawton Public Schools Assistant Superintendent/Chief Financial Officer Lance Gibbs has been selected as a Distinguished Eagle Award recipient by the International Association of S...