LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Lincoln Public Schools officials announced on Tuesday that Lincoln Northwest High School will open in the fall of 2022 with a ninth-grade class of approximately 223 students.

High school math teacher Jehu Peters and Anna Stokke, a professor at the University of Winnipeg, both endorsed the decision to extend the Grade 9 course over a full year.

Almost a year since Hurricane Harvey put Aloe Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Lovie Sayles-Clark out of her classroom of eight years, she got a different surprise at the start of ...