Kansas House panel agrees on higher education overhaul
The House Select Committee on Higher Education reached consensus on a plan to shutter the Board of Regents and replace it with a Council on Higher Education to oversee six state universities Washburn University 19 community colleges and 11 vocational shows. It would keep the Board of Education running K 12 education. An unnamed coordination bridge entity would connect the council and the Board of Education. The plan drafted by Rep Jim Garner D Coffeyville was accepted Wednesday night with details to be fleshed out and a vote planned later tonight. The proposal faces a potential $480 million cost with 317 million for regents institutions 47 million more for community colleges 13 million for Washburn and 55 million for vo tech schools. The plan envisions two divisions under the council one governance for universities and Washburn and another to coordinate community colleges and go tech schools while retaining local boards.
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Kansas
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Council On Higher Education
Washburn University
Board of Education
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D-Coffeyville
Garner
David Adkins
Rleawood
Tim Shalenburger
Baxter Springs
Adkins
Shallenburger
Regents
Bill Graves
Washburn
Council of Higher Education
Go-Tech
Gary Mitchell
Secretary of Health and Environment
Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee
Judiciary Committee
Sloan debuts KPERS measure and Haskell aid bill
Kansas lawmaker Rep. Tom Sloan of Lawrence introduces two bills. One creates a KPERS advisory council with active and retired members to advise on contributions and benefits and to review investment strategies. The other bill seeks state aid for Haskell Indian Nations University akin to community colleges.
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Tom Sloan
Haskell Indian Nations University
KPERS
Sloan
Barbara Ballard
Troy Findley
Lawrence Democrats
Kent Glasscock
Manhattan
House Appropriations Committee
Haskell
Kansas
Johnson County
Ralph Tanner
R-Baldwin
Joann Flower
R-Oskaloosa
Senate debates bill to empower ethics commission stronger subpoenas
The Senate tentatively approved a measure expanding the ethics commission's power to issue subpoenas for documents and testimony. The bill would remove the current 30 day response wait, addressing concerns about evidence destruction while officials urge adequate tools and funding.
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Commission On Governmental Standards and Conduct
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Carol Williams
Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee
Dredging Ban Could Crimp Kansas River Economy
Kansas Geological Survey warned that ending sand dredging on the Kansas River would curb northeast Kansas growth. Limited pit dredges and high transport costs from other rivers and Missouri make sand supply untenable for many construction jobs, with a moratorium already in place pending study.
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Kansas Geological Survey
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Lawrence
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Labor leader John Sweeney speaks in Kansas City on union priorities
AFL-CIO president John Sweeney told a Kansas City audience that labor aims to make health care affordable, shore up Social Security and pensions, and organize more workers. He urged stronger equal pay, higher minimum wage, and opposed NAFTA citing harm to workers in Mexico and the U.S. He described a national forum plan through May and predicted a vigorous mobilization of rank and file membership.
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Mexico
NAFTA
California
Associated Press
Board votes to cut funding for KSU newspaper adviser
The Student Publications Inc. board voted 6-4 to end funding for the director position held by Ron Johnson, a Kansas State journalism professor, while asking him to stay temporarily. The university will renew his contract through 1999, but questions remain about contract validity and split salaries between the university and Student Publications.
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