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Nearly 60 ISD eighth-grade girls got a glimpse into their potential future during the district’s annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Night inside Truman High School.

Independence Academy’s senior class heard their teacher Alison Saunders talk about her love of sewing and quilting and decided to use those skills to make the holidays special for the staff, students and one very special organization.

The Bridger Choir, Band and Orchestra enjoyed sharing the sounds of the season at their Holiday Concerts.

Thanks to an amazing staff, wonderful PTA and the generous help of LINC and our partnership with Title I, more than 300 people spent an evening this week at Randall Elementary to celebrate the holiday season.

In the true spirit of the season, ISD schools and employees raised nearly $19,000 during the Holiday Helpers Change Challenge.

Here’s your chance to get a piece of history and help ISD Athletics.

Christian Ott Elementary and William Chrisman High School have been named National Schools of Character.

The ISD is one of seven Kansas City, Mo. area school districts receiving a KC HealthTracks grant to increase the number of low income and minority students entering post-high school health care training programs.

For nearly six straight hours, Procter Elementary School Principal Amy Hawley read, and read, and read! She read more than 20 books to her students during the Principal Challenge, part of National Young Readers Week.

In school cafeterias and gymnasiums throughout the ISD, military veterans were recognized and thanked during a variety of unique and heartfelt Veterans Day programs and assemblies.

Nearly 200 ISD students now have a much clearer view of the world around them, thanks to LINC, the Local Investment Commission and OneSight providing free eye examinations and free eyeglasses to students in need.

With an ever-present eye on the future, the ISD entered a partnership with the Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway to enhance the district’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) initiatives. “We already have an excellent STEM program in the ISD,” said Dr. Dale Herl, superintendent, “and the opportunity provided by the Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway partnership […]

The Independence School District is hiring bus drivers. Employees receive great wages, plus benefits- including employer paid health insurance, available dental and vision insurance and access to district facilities including pool, gym and health clinic. Applicants must be 21 years of age- no experience necessary.  Drivers receive paid training and only work on school days […]