Reading wars linger as Garden City USD 457 aims to boost AYP
Our View notes district schools missed adequate yearly progress in reading under No Child Left Behind. Officials blame 1990s debates between phonics and whole language, now balancing approaches with Reading First and Title I funds. Despite gaps, educators push strategies, high standards, and broader student achievement.
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Reading First
Sweltering Cancun gym hosts evacuees as Wilma nears
Vacationer Jeff Bakken among over 1500 people in a sweltering Cancun gym awaiting hurricane Wilma. Senator Durbin questions Harriet Miers' Supreme Court support. Demarcus Harris, cousin of Lashuan T. Harris, linked to the alleged drowning of three young boys in San Francisco Bay.
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Jeff Bakken
Cancun
Mexico
Demarcus Harris
Lashuan T. Harris
San Francisco Bay
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The Telegram invites signed letters to the editor with writer address and phone number. Letters are confirmed before publication and may be edited for libel and length. Keep under 500 words. general thank you notes are fine. form letters, poems, and certain testimonials will not be printed. contact editor via email or phone or mail at 310 N Seventh St Garden City KS 67846.
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First Amendment text cited as inalienable rights
The message echoes the First Amendment’s core protections for religion speech press assembly and petition. It emphasizes establishment clause free exercise freedom of expression and the right to seek government redress. The statement underscores constitutional limits on government power.
Hypocrisy over Miers nomination fuels debate on faith
The piece critiques the Bush White House for turning to Harriet Miers's religion amid questions about her qualifications and experience. It contrasts GOP and conservative reactions, cites critics and journalists, and notes the backlash from both parties as the nomination faces mounting scrutiny.
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Supreme Court
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New Orleans
CLA
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Kathleen Parker
George F. Will
William Kristol
White House
James Dobson
Pat Robertson
Dobson
Focus On the Family
Karl Rove
700 Club
Robertson
GOP
John G. Roberts Jr
High Court
Talk to Strangers and the Vigilant Kansas City
Robert Day recounts the 1994 Library of Congress tribute to William Stafford, famed poet laureate, praising his plain Kansas voice and gift for vivid reticence. He reflects on surveillance in schools, Stafford’s advise to “Talk to strangers,” and the author’s turn from distant cameras to communities where real conversations matter. Day, a Maryland teacher and novelist, wrote this essay for the Land Institute's Prairie Writers Circle.
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Land Institute
Prairie Writers Circle
Salina
Time to trim defense budget amid Katrina fallout
Analysis argues to repurpose hurricane relief funds from the Pentagon by cutting wasteful defense programs. Senatorial figures like Voinovich push cost savings, suggesting about 60 billion could be saved without harming security, including ending obsolete Cold War era weapons and delaying certain missile defenses.
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Ohio
Voinovich
Bush
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