The Lawrence school board met on Monday, March 10, 2025. Lawrence school board members communicated support for families at Prairie Park Elementary, and a parent called for greater transparency ...

A Prairie Park Elementary School mother and her daughter have filed a lawsuit against Lawrence Unified School District 497 after former employee Mark Elliott Gridley allegedly sexually abused ...

An employee at Prairie Park Elementary School in Lawrence, shown here in a July 2024 Google Maps image, has been accused of sexually assaulting at least eight students, Lawrence police said on ...

A Prairie Park Elementary School mother and her daughter have filed a lawsuit against Lawrence Unified School District 497 after former employee Mark Elliott Gridley allegedly sexually abused multiple ...

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Mark Elliott Gridley, 60, was arrested Feb. 8 after a student at Prairie Park Elementary informed their parent about “events that occurred during the school day” on Feb. 7. The parent reported the ...

Lawrence Police believe detectives found evidence that Gridley sexually abused a total of eight students at Prairie Park Elementary School over two days in February. The school district said it is ...

(KAKE) – Police in Lawrence are requesting additional charges after a former elementary school ... events that occurred during a school day at Prairie Park Elementary School.

Fennelly said Thursday that all of the allegations made against Gridley thus far were for incidents that took place at Prairie Park Elementary School, the only site in the district he was assigned ...

The lawsuit states that while the student was attending Prairie Park Elementary School, she was sexually abused by Mark Gridley, who was then a speech pathologist employed by the district.