Pilot program aids youngest students advance in Garden City
At a Garden City Board of Education meeting the district discussed a three year kindergarten and first grade readiness rubric aligned with Common Core. The tool guides teachers and involves parents to reduce grade retention while preserving flexibility. The board will revisit the item for a decision.
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USC
Garden City Board of Education
Leigh Ann Roderick
Roderick
Sam Brownback
Brandy Gnad
Abe Hubert
Gnad
Susan Boyle
Edith Scheuerman
Steve Karlin
Karlin
Mark Rude
Jarrod Stoppel
Kenneth Henderson
Garden City
Stoppel
GCHS
Oklahoma
Ingalls
Holcomb
Horace J. Good Middle School
Alzheimer's license plates signed to honor Bill Freeman
Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill authorizing Kansas Alzheimer’s awareness license plates. The plates require 500 signatures and a 30 donation to move to design, with applicants receiving a receipt. Nanette Nauerte praised her father Bill Freeman, a celebrated coach, who died of the disease.
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Jennifer Nauerte
Sam Brownback
Nauerte
Kansas
Bill Freeman
Nanette
Peggy
Alzheimer’s Association
Division of
Motor Vehicles
Don Woodard
Kansas Silver Haired Legislature
Brownback faces tax bill clash with pizza magnate
A Kansas tax dispute involving pizza entrepreneur Gene Bicknell tests SB 280 as Gov. Brownback weighs a bill allowing new district court trials with new evidence in tax appeals. Bicknell’s $42 million income tax case and potential repayment loom if the state loses. The bill’s fate hinges on Brownback’s decision after lobbying and Senate protests over broader trial rights.
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TNS
Sam Brownback
Board of Tax Appeals
Kansas Court of Appeals
Gene Bicknell
Brownback
Eileen Hawley
Bicknell
Court of Tax Appeals
Hawley
Senate
Susan Wagle
Wichita
Wagle
NPC International
Kansas Department of Revenue
Kansas
Florida
Kansas Supreme Court
High Court
Court of Appeals
Cota
Luke Bell
Kansas Association of Realtors
Bell
Marvin Kleeb
Overland Park
Les Donovan
Kleeb
Kathleen Sebelius
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Michael Priddy
American Legion
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U.S. Army
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