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Officials look to improve elementaries, technology and career education By Alex Garrison acgarrison@ljworld.com
Students help beautify Oread Center TOP PHOTO: Veritas Christian Academy seniors Madi Bennett, left, and Abi Bartlow shovel away piles of dirt from the sidewalk Wednesday as they and others from the school work to beautify the exterior of the Oread Center, 912 Ill. Third-graders through high school seniors from the school, as well as faculty members, spent the day volunteering at several sites across the city as part of a day of service. AT LEFT: Veritas senior Ali Dover, front, laughs as freshman Rebekah Andersson fixes a braid in her hair. The two spent part of the afternoon raking leaves from the backyard of the Oread Center. AT RIGHT: A student digs a hole to plant a small shrub. See the audio slideshow at LJWorld.com.
The Lawrence school board is working on a bond issue, set to go to public vote in April. Committees are still formulating details of what it will entail — and how much it will cost — but three overall goals have emerged. That is, three goals for what they want in the bond issue; a fourth clear goal is how they want to get it passed: without raising taxes. In open meetings and interviews, board members and district administration have outlined three basic goals for what they’d like to see:
“Revamping” elementary schools
Improving technology throughout the district
Bolstering career educaDoll tion for high schoolers The emphasis in planning so far is on the elementary schools, which will form the bulk of the cost and work of the issue. “The main focus is getting our elementary schools to an adequate — even exceptional — level for 21st century learning,” Superintendant Rick Doll said. The board hired architecture firm Gould
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$24.5 million grant to establish national special education center By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
The largest grant ever received by Kansas University will establish a national center aiming to transform the way children with disabilities are taught in America’s schools, KU officials announced Wednesday. The $24.5 million, fiveyear grant awarded to KU’s Life Span Institute by the U.S. Department of Education will create the Technical Assistance Center for Inclusive School-Wide Reform.
“It is a remarkable investment in the University of Kansas and the work that we KANSAS do in special education,” UNIVERSITY said Tim Caboni, KU’s vice chancellor for public affairs. Wayne Sailor, a professor of special education based at the Life Span Institute, will serve as the lead investigator for the grant project. He said the project would be based on research he and others
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had conducted for about 20 years, which shows that students with disabilities are better off when they’re taken out of separate special education classrooms and placed alongside other students. Since a federal law in the 1970s established special education programs in the country’s schools, those students have been segregated in separate classrooms, Sailor said. And research shows that model does not work, he said. “That’s a model that
TOPEKA — Retiring Speaker Mike O’Neal will go from leading the Kansas House chamber to leading the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, has been hired as president and chief executive officer of the business organization, it was announced Wednesday. During the last legislative session, O’Neal pushed through the House massive business tax cuts that were supported by the Kansas Chamber and Gov. Sam Brownback. “While serving in the Kansas House, Mike has been a strong probusiness voice and advocate,” said
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Speaker Mike O’Neal pushed through the House of Representatives massive business tax cuts that were supported by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. Ivan Crossland, incoming Kansas Chamber board chairman for 2013. “His vision and the Kansas Chamber’s vision have always been the Please see CHAMBER, page 2A
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Tobias Schlingensiepen, the Democratic candidate for the 2nd Congressional District, and Lynn Jenkins, the House incumbent, clash over big-business interests. Page 3A
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