Salary cap exemption for retired teachers helps fill openings
Education groups and school officials urged lawmakers to extend a salary cap exemption allowing retired teachers to return without capped pay. HB 2253 would extend the exemption for three more years as districts face hard-to-fill vacancies in special education and other areas. Kansas educators cited districts relying on retirees to meet urgent staffing needs with no current opposition voiced at the hearing.
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Pensions and Benefits Committee
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Charles Wakefield
Wichita Public Schools
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Kansas Association of School Boards
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Kansas Association of Retired School Personnel
United School Administrators of Kansas
Cheryl Semmel
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House Pensions and Benefits Committee
Listeria outbreak traced to Texas ice cream plant
Five Kansas patients were sickened and three died in a listeria outbreak linked to Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham Texas. Health officials tied cases from Via Christi St Francis Wichita to a Brenham ice cream production line via shared listeria found in product samples and patient histories. The timeline spans January 2014 to January 2015 with hospital admissions preceding illness.
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South Carolina
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Sara Belfry
Blue Bell Creameries
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Kansans favor permits for concealed gun carriers poll
A March poll shows 78 percent of Kansans want concealed weapon carriers to have a state permit and 58 percent would oppose candidates who back loosening the permit system. The survey accompanies Senate Bill 45, which would drop the educational requirement for licensure while retaining a state permit network for out of state carry. 18 percent would back the bill and 23 percent see no difference. Authorities note 98 percent of households with a concealed permit favor keeping the current permit rule.
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Kansas
Michelle Reed
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Forrest Knox
Altoona
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House Federal and State Affairs Committee
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