Kansas Considers Statewide Competency Testing Plan
Kansas Education Commissioner Merle Bolton backs statewide basic skills testing with set grade levels and early remedial work. The Board of Education approved a one year study with a report due by November 1, while districts currently conduct their own tests and over 20 states already have such programs.
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Joseph Harder
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Weather's light impact on wheat market in rain plagued week
Rain hampers the wheat harvest with prices near 2.30 a bushel in Kansas City. Experts forecast possible transfer of up to 200 million bushels to livestock feed as rain continues, while crop estimates hover near a record 396 million bushels.
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Water quality hearing set in Topeka on funding priorities
Kansas secretary of health and environment Dwight F. Metzler announced a public hearing next Tuesday to set priorities for federal wastewater treatment plant funding. He noted the Water Pollution Control Act offers 75 percent construction grants and about $59 million would be available this year under the new priorities.
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Dwight F. Metzler
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Former ASCS director leads regional planning group
Frank Mosier, 47, once Kansas director of the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service, was approved Thursday night as director of the Big Lakes Regional Planning Commission. The commission covers Riley Geary Pottawatomie and Clay counties with Mosier taking the post July 1 after his April dismissal as ASCS regional director.
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