Grassroots push to defend Kansas music education funding
Kansas Music Educators Association members urge advocacy to protect programs amid steep budget cuts. EMEA president Craig Manteuffel cites a 2010 survey showing 185 music positions lost since 2007, including 124 in 2009-10, with districts cutting travel funds raising fees and reassigning teachers to non specialty classes across about 190 responding districts.
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Kansas
Kansas Music Educators Association
EMEA
Craig Manteuffel
Hays
State Board of Education
Association
Topeka Capital-Journal
Tribe leaders mark Kan. 150th anniversary event in Topeka
Leaders from Iowa Kickapoo Prairie Band Potawatomi and Sac and Fox tribes will gather with Kansas Governor Sam Brownback for a 3 30 p m commemoration at the Kansas State Historical Society. Kaw Nation representatives also join, noting treaties before 1861 reduced Kaw lands and moved members to Oklahoma after the Civil War.
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Topeka
Kansas
Sam Brownback
Kansas State Historical Society
West Topeka
Iowa
Kickapoo
Oklahoma
Project propriate dress aids students with disabilities
Project Search helps 15 students since August with disabilities including Asperger's syndrome. Nine work at KU in animal care, facilities, human resources, athletics and the library while others learn social and job skills. Each student has a job coach and meets before and after work.
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Baska
Mary Bentley
LMH
Leonard
LMH Endowment Association
Sorin Andrus
Andrus
Kathy Snyder
Sorin
Snyder
Health blogger contact info for Karrey Britt
Health reporter Karrey Britt can be reached at 832-7190 for health notes and tips. Readers can follow her wellness coverage on WellCommons dot com and via the WellCommons Twitter feed.
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WellCommons.com
Twitter
WellCommons
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George Diepenbrock
Gdiepenbrock
District moves funds to approach prior budget level
The school district begins reallocating more than 1 million in additional budget requests to be spent by June 30 under state rules. Finance director Kathy Johnson says plans include hiring, with Hayden asserting frugal, forward looking spending. The reserve cash balance stands at 353,347 after the transfers.
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Doll
Keith Diaz Moore
Hayden
Hayden and Johnson
Mark Tallman
The
Kansas Association of
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Tallman
Auburn-Washburn
Kansas
Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
Minnesota
Connecticut
New Jersey
Jennifer Attockine
Settlement hearing set in 2010 crash case over Walker
Douglas County prosecutors review possible criminal charges against Walker who faces a separate 2006 Johnson County robbery and battery sentence. Key evidence includes blood alcohol tests not yet released. Officer Gross reported Walker staggered and intoxicated at the scene. a phlebotomist drew blood two hours after the crash.
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Douglas County
Johnson County
Kansas Department of Corrections
Charles Branson
Sean Gross
Gross
Robert Fairchild
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Clinton Parkway
Paez
Lawrence High School
Fairchild
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