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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 2008
Page
5
Students move between sites to complete assignments using Internet tools. They edit grammar on SMART Boards and create Power Point presentations about famous Kansans. Teachers note gradual adoption over two years, now integrating animation and sound as students lead with tech.
Principal Suzanne Smith presides over Gertrude Walker Elementary, serving 323 students with a 60 percent Caucasian, 67 percent Hispanic, 3 percent Black, and 12 percent other. Schools report 75 percent economically disadvantaged and 43 percent English learners, with math 94.6 and reading 90.1 percent proficient from spring 2007 KS tests. USD 457 staff provide monthly in service tech training and classroom teachers like Zeller praise Tech Rich strategies for engagement and discipline.
Kansas lobby records show combined spending of $854,921 in January through March, up from $444,882 a year earlier, with coal plant advocates dominating since January. Know Your Power Kansas led with $405,000 in newspaper ads opposing the plants, while Sunflower Electric spent about $111,248 on pro coal ads.
Kansas lawmakers discuss a proposed resolution to sue Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby over coal plant permitting. The move targets Bremby and Gov. Sebelius for actions blocking Sunflower Electric’s two 700 megawatt plants, cited as a separation of powers dispute. Existing suits by Tri-State, Sunflower, and local bodies pursue KDHE permit denials, with appeals heard at the administrative level per a recent Supreme Court order.
About 60 local cancer survivors were honored with purple shirts and white sashes as they began a Relay for Life night at Garden City Community College Perryman Athletic Complex. Constance Kells spoke of her Burkitt's lymphoma battle, a doctor declaring her cancer-free just before turning 50. Co-Chairs Roni Knight and Nancy Woods, both touched by cancer, led fundraising and awareness efforts including luminarias and pledges to boost survival odds.
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