Bands Earn High Ratings at City Festival
White noted a spark in the bands as the festival wrapped with Garden City and Scott City bands earning high ratings. Ulysses’ Tiger Pride Band received a N rating while GCHS earned an I. Shaina Griggs, a 2006 graduate, helped at concessions and spoke about band shaping her path in music education at Wichita State University.
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White
National Weather Service
Shaina Griggs
GCHS
Griggs
Wichita State University
Tiger Pride
Lee
Scott Community High School
John Ford
Scott City
Justina Wishon
Amanda Kennedy
Blues Brothers
Jake and
Elwood
Wishon
Kennedy
Garden City
Ulysses High School
Denise Laredo
Santana
WAC
Memorial Stadium
Laredo
UHS
Kansas educators seek funding plan for equal education
KASB lobbyists gather with district reps across Kansas to shape a funding plan that can equalize resources between urban and rural schools. They discuss local option budgets, weightings for cost of living and isolation, and the impact of SB 549 after the Supreme Court dismissal. Proposals will be drafted by the KASB Board and voted on by delegates at the annual conference.
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Kansas
KASB
Topeka
Kansas State Supreme Court
Kasb Execu
Tive
John Koepke
Mark Tallman
Southwest Kansas Board
Don Reichenborn
Dodge City
USD 443
Board of Education
Zabel
Tallman
Kasb Board of
Elections: Hispanics face discrimination in campaigns in Kansas
U.S. census data shows Hispanics and other candidates face bias as immigration debates influence local races. Delia Ortiz notes the challenge of nonmajority Latino districts. Experts describe tactics attacking ethnicity, while advocates say progress toward power is uneven and generational.
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Dodge City
U.S
Kansas
Delia Ortiz
Louis DeSipio
University of California, Irvine
John Trasvina
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Gold
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
R-Fla
Florida
Diaz-Balart
Miami
Huelskamp forms upset over livestock tracking program
Kansas law requires chief information officer approval for projects over 250000. At a Post Audit Committee hearing on the National Animal Identification System the panels reviewed USDA efforts to track livestock nationwide within 48 hours of disease discovery. The program aims to assign facility IDs and feed data into a national database to aid outbreak response amid mad cow fears and bio-terrorism concerns.
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Huelskamp
Kansas
Us.d.a
Federal
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Sandhills Art Association
GCCC
David Kinder
Mercer
Gccc Fine Arts Center
Ye Wang
Mercer Gallery
Western State Bank
Jon Fort
ABC Real Estate
John Judge
Coldwell Banker Real Estate
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Kandee K. Klein
DDS
Garden City Community College
Debbie Stabenow
Michigan
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Credit Union
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