NASS program links native culture to area schools
NASS programming includes hoop dancing classes pow wow drumming and storytelling visits to elementary schools to connect Native American students with their tribes and culture. The district has about 556 NASS students from 94 tribes, with some schools around 15 percent Native attendance.
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Attackine
Lawrence
New York
Kennedy
Broken Arrow
NASS
U.S. Department of Education
Attockine
Colorado prisons eyed for Guantanamo detainees
A Pentagon team will inspect a Colorado state and federal prison to gauge suitability for holding Guantanamo detainees. They assess construction costs and changes needed, alongside reviews at Fort Leavenworth and Naval Brig Charleston, as Obama seeks to shut Gitmo.
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Denver
U.S. Defense Department
Colorado
Guantanamo Bay
U.S
Obama
Guantanamo Detention Center
Pentagon
Fort Leavenworth
Naval Consolidated
Charleston
S.C
Roadwork delays Bob Billings interchange opening dates
The South Lawrence Trafficway interchange at Bob Billings Parkway is delayed. The east half is to open Wednesday November 25 and the west half by Thursday December 18. Work continues through May 2016. The outside westbound lane of 23rd Street between Louisiana and Alabama streets is closed through Monday for a waterline project.
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South Lawrence
Bob Billings
Health insurance changes affect KU and state workers
Health insurance changes will raise deductibles and premiums for Kansas University and other state employees next year. End of coverage will occur immediately at job termination, including retirements, under new rules. Open enrollment this month offers two providers, Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield, with Plans A and C and higher deductibles, while Plan C premiums rise sharply. Open enrollment meetings are set for Thursday in the Kansas Union with online details at humanresources.ku.edu/open enrollment.
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Kansas University
Lawrence
Madi Vannaman
Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Associated Press
Kansas Union
Jayhawk Blvd
Humanresources
Ku.edu
Openenrollment
KU to grant roughly 1 percent raise to faculty and staff
Provost Jeff Vitter announced a planned roughly 1 percent raise to KU employees, funded from the university salary budget. Final decisions depend on factors including state budget stability, with four earlier phases of a Classification and Market Study raising some salaries to minimums.
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Jeff Vitter
Vitter
Kansas
Department of Revenue
Sam Brownback
Kansas Board of Regents
Bernadette Gray-Little
Gray-Little
Firms' efficiency study faces mixed reviews and cost gaps
The audit group A&M produced an efficiency review for Louisiana and North Carolina drew praise for the concept but skepticism on claimed savings. Critics note speculative figures such as a 1.5 million annual transport cost cut and home births replacing hospital care, while realities like Medicaid staffing and the Affordable Care Act limit savings. Kansas proceeded with a bid contract for an efficiency study amid ongoing federal investigations.
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Scott
Louisiana
Oregon
Montana
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
Rudy Dimmling
News & Observer
DHHS
Aldona Wos
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