Wichita explores guitar history with rare loans exhibit
Wichita's guitar history gains depth as Eric Cale curates a major exhibit at Exploration Place and the Wichita Sedgwick County Historical Museum. The show features about 50 instruments from 1870 to 1950, including rare 1949 Bigsby and 1932 Rickenbacker frying pan, with a May 6 8 symposium by prominent scholars.
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Kansas education funding bills press broad reforms
Budget talks focus on three bills altering school district organization and funding. HB 2504 would consolidate districts by county size, forcing Baldwin City into Lawrence or Eudora and Jefferson County into one district, while other measures set bond funding eligibility and private-school scholarship credits. A juvenile justice overhaul seeks community corrections to reduce detentions.
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Kansas education panel weighs suicide prevention training for all staff
At a Senate Education Committee hearing on Smith's measure Kansas parents who lost children to self harm urged action. The Kansas Department of Education will bring a proposal to require death by self harm prevention training for all school employees. Critics question cost while supporters call it essential to curb tragedies and raise awareness.
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