Budget Pushes Tax Hike and Job Cuts in Garden City
Garden City USD 457 board approves local option budget increase of 1.3 million and a two mill property tax rise to fund layoffs and larger class sizes. The plan eliminates 13 teacher positions, cuts library paraprofessionals, and uses general fund dollars to offset missing Title I funds while weighing furloughs and further savings options. Superintendent Kiblinger to depart, saving about 110,000 annual USD 457 salary. Board splits 6-1 on the measures. one member cites tax burden. Local band funding request for 4000 remains rejected for now.
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Atha
Mike Utz
Kiblinger
Hutchinson Public Schools
Shiela Dinkel
Jennie Barker
Dinkel
Linda Rose
Garfield Elementary
Jeff Crist
John Scheppner
Gloria Hopkins
Bruce Reichmuth
Scheppner
Topeka
Washington, D.C
Hopkins
Crist
Jean Clifford
Utz
Garden City Educator’s Association
Kathleen A. Whitley
USD 457
Whitley
Protests over Libyan crackdown reach global attention
Witnesses report bodies in streets as defections rise and ambassadors flee. The crackdown on eastern Libya protesters intensifies with militia firing from rooftops and blocking neighborhoods. U N rights officials and HRW cite hundreds killed with rising tolls. leaders urged investigation while oil prices spike.
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Egypt
Tunisia
U.N
High Commissioner For Human Rights
Libya
Human Rights Watch
Tripoli
Benghazi
Navi Pillay
OPEC
Europe
Repsol-Ypf
U.S
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Gaddafi
Franco Frattini
Cairo
Italy
Mediterranean
Gadhafi
Green Square
Fashloum
Associated Press
Colleges bulging under new economic realities
Tony Crouch of Cowley County Community College reports 20 percent growth in total credit hours, with more than half of expenses tied to enrollment fluctuations and tuition only 30 percent of the budget. Mulvane campus faces caps, parking shortfall, and potential 25 to 30 percent enrollment rise.
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Tony Crouch
Cowley County Community College
Area Technical School
Arkansas City
Mulvane
Crouch
Tuition Bill Targets Regents Tuition for All Years
Rep Caryn Tyson notes broad voter support for repealing the in-state tuition law. Supporters say it helps children illegally brought to Kansas by their parents who meet all requirements, while Rep Mario Goico recounts his Cuban escape and education to defend the measure. He argues the law harms no one and is not a giveaway.
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Gaddafi
Ajdabiya
Ahmed al-Zawi
al-Zawi
Benghazi
Maghrabiya
Zawi
al- Zawi
Regents University
Caryn Tyson
Parker
Tyson
Kansas
Mario Goico
House
Federal and State Affairs Committee
Cuba
Goico
Air Force
Wichita
United States
University of Kansas
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Gail Dunford
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Norma Johnson
Charles O. Stones
Randall Sleep
Abe Hubert
Sleep
Laurie Si
Mohammed Ali
Ali
Gulf
Dubai
Emade
First Christian Church
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