Luna Stephens
Journalist at Omaha World-Herald
education reporter @owhnews. alum @unl_cojmc. Empathy always.
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1 week ago |
journalstar.com | Luna Stephens
A Nebraska teacher is receiving national recognition for her work teaching Braille and helping students with visual impairments open doors to future success. Audrey Graves will be recognized this month as the Braille Institute’s Teacher of the Year for her 20-year career at the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired in Nebraska City. Graves, an outreach coordinator at the center, said she was shocked when she heard in March that she had won the award.
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2 weeks ago |
journalstar.com | Luna Stephens
With the goal of making all baseball fans feel welcome, the College World Series will offer sensory kits for checkout at Omaha's Charles Schwab Field this year. Autism Action Partnership delivered 50 sensory kits to the College World Series office Monday. The kits will be available for checkout throughout the series at the Guest Services counter near Section 113 of the ballpark and will be cleaned and restocked after each use. The College World Series starts Friday.
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2 weeks ago |
kearneyhub.com | Luna Stephens
LINCOLN — The Nebraska State Board of Education narrowly approved a program to provide period products in schools after adding language specifying in which bathrooms they would be placed. The board voted 5-3 to approve a pilot program to make menstrual products available to the state’s school districts in the 2025-26 school year after more than 30 minutes of discussion. The program was established by a bill that passed in the Legislature in 2024.
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2 weeks ago |
yorknewstimes.com | Luna Stephens
LINCOLN — The Nebraska State Board of Education voted Friday to delay changes to the state's priority school list. The board voted to take no action on recommendations from the Nebraska Department of Education to remove Isanti Elementary School from the list of schools targeted for improvement and add the Omaha Nation Middle School.
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3 weeks ago |
fremonttribune.com | Luna Stephens
LINCOLN — The Nebraska State Board of Education approved a $10,000 raise for the state's education commissioner and an extension of his contract Friday. Brian Maher will now earn $325,237 a year beginning July 1, a 3.25% increase from his previous salary of $315,000. The renewed contract will extend through June 2027. Maher's contract was set to expire in 2026. Maher also received a 5% raise in 2024, bringing his salary to $315,000.
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There's at least one person who wasn't at all surprised to see John Ewing elected the next mayor of Omaha. 13 years ago, Pastor Cedric Perkins told Ewing he'd be the city's first Black mayor. https://t.co/amNQtFiZdE
RT @OWHnews: In incomplete election returns, challenger John Ewing held a strong advantage over three-term incumbent Jean Stothert Tuesday…
With a nearly 5,000 vote lead ahead of Stothert as of 8:45 p.m., John Ewing says he’s “very confident” he’ll stay in the lead.
