Kansas schools brace for a busy year ahead
Kansas education leaders prepare for sweeping policy decisions over the next year affecting classroom life. Four of ten state board members will be new in January as a largely freshman Legislature takes shape. Diane DeBacker of the Education Commission calls it possibly the busiest year since No Child Left Behind began in 2001, with decisions on science standards and other policy shifts.
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Rescuers honored for valor at Lied Center ceremony
Susan Ralston recalled Officer Tina Shambaugh’s quick CPR at her Lawrence home when Jim Ralston stopped breathing on August 20. Shambaugh’s action, praised publicly on stage at the Lied Center, helped save the KU professor emeritus’s life. Seventeen police and five personnel were honored in the ceremony.
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City approves purchase of new Pierce fire engine
Lawrence city commissioners unanimously approved a 972525 bid for a new Pierce quint fire engine. The purchase continues funding from a 2008 infrastructure sales tax intended to set aside 500000 annually for fire truck purchases, though a full fleet plan remains uncertain.
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EU business professor studied under Nobel Prize winner
Chris Anderson recalls economist Alvin Roth posing a dinner puzzle to his students as he learned Roth won the Nobel Prize in economics. Anderson, KU School of Business associate professor of finance, took Roth’s two semester course sequence while pursuing his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh in the early 1990s.
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