Education Secretary Dun can on end to opportunity gap speech
Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged closing the opportunity gap and spoke against public school cuts on the steps of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site. He cited Highland Park High School in Topeka and Principal Beryl New while defending federal grant help to raise achievement in low performing schools. He warned that states cutting funding harm education and the economy, as his 10 day bus tour continued.
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Kansas Education Chief Says Decline Hard to Explain
Kansas Education Commissioner Diane De Backer notes difficulty identifying causes for declines in reading math science and history test results across grades. The 2012 Kansas Report Card to the State Board cites budget cuts as a factor, with districts cutting funds and programs while lawsuits challenge funding levels and 10 percent cuts urged for two state schools.
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Kennedy School Falls Short in State Standard of Excellence
The Kansas Department of Education released the 2024 list showing Kennedy School in Lawrence did not meet the Standard of Excellence while 13 of 14 elementary schools earned the mark district wide in reading and most in math. statewide awards totaled 3081 in reading 2816 in math 432 in science and 160 in history government. The program ends this year as the state waives further adequate yearly progress calculations.
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Game day patrol cuts in on alcohol and parking violations
Lawrence Police and partners patrolled the Dread neighborhood around KU football on Saturday. Reported activity includes 153 parking violations and 22 alcohol violations, nine arrests, three disturbance with weapons, four noise warnings, and four noise citations. A separate Fake ID 101 operation checked 13 bars, issuing 11 criminal citations for fake IDs and minor alcohol offenses. ABC issued three bar penalties for minor alcohol possession.
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