Regents named on worst free speech list in 2014
The Kansas Board of Regents appears on FIRE's 2014 list of ten worst colleges for free speech for a controversial social media policy. KU is developing a procedure for handling alleged policy violations as FIRE notes two nonuniversity entrants. Other named institutions include Brandeis Voll and several major universities.
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Foundation For Individual Rights In Education
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Kansas wheat, livestock in good shape this winter
WICHITA AP Kansas wheat crops and livestock are generally positive this winter. NASS reports 44 percent of winter wheat in good to excellent condition, 44 percent fair, and 12 percent poor or very poor. Livestock show solid health with 67 percent cattle in good or excellent condition and about 70 percent sheep and lambs in good to excellent shape. Topsoil moisture is adequate in 58 percent, subsoil in 47 percent. Temperatures 4–8 degrees below normal in eastern Kansas, western areas near normal amid snow cover replenishing soil moisture.
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Loveland leads in primary as four seek four seats
Loveland tops the field with 2,698 votes in the April 7 ballot for four four year seats, followed by Harmon 2,194 Spurgeon 1,545 Spears 1,393. Turnout reached 8,696 ballots about 14 percent while Spears and Spurgeon are among the other candidates. Loveland praised voter confidence and noted admiration for fellow nominees. Harmon expressed cautious optimism about the results.
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Kelly Spurgeon
Kansas State Department of Education
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Lawrence school board race totals reflect incumbents and challengers
Voters tally in a Lawrence district race shows Mary Loveland with 2,698, Marcel Harmon 2,194, Kelly Spurgeon 1,545, and Norrie Spears 1,393 of 7,830 total votes. Loveland, 66, served 1987 to 2003 and 2007 to 2011. Harmon, 46, appointed last summer, is an applied anthropologist for M.E. Group.
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Marcel Harmon
Kelly Spurgeon
Norrie Spears
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Loveland
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Kansas
Kansas high court decision on school finance appeal likely
The Kansas Supreme Court is asked to take jurisdiction over the Gannon v. Kansas school finance case as a Shawnee County panel pauses hearings. If the high court accepts, a ruling could come by late 2015 or 2016, affecting 2016-2017 funding. Local districts Wichita Kansas City Hutchinson and Dodge City lead the suit challenging underfunding and equity. Shawnee Mission joins, arguing current formulas inequitable. Proponents cite weighting factors for hard to teach students. opponents say those factors don’t reflect true costs. The case could shape roughly half of the $6 billion general fund.
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High Court
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Supreme Court
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Johnson County
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