Kansas Legislature Faces Key Tasks After Reconvening
The 1992 Legislature will reconvene on April 29 to finish its work with school finance and Senate reapportionment unresolved. House HB 2892 outlines a base mill levy and per pupil spending, while Senate debates over funding formulas continue. Judges urge a constitutional funding plan, and the push to redraw districts persists alongside budget and education debates.
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Kansas Senate
Terry Bullock
House of Representatives
Senate
Senate leader Kerr ends bid for fifth term in Kansas
Senate Republicans will have a new leader next session as Majority Leader Fred Kerr, a Pratt area farmer, announces he will not seek re election for a fifth four year term. He will decide next year whether to run for governor in 1994. Kerr would have resigned if pursuing the governorship. He leaves after 16 years in the Senate. His brother Dave Kerr, R Hutchinson, is finishing his second four year term.
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Topeka
Kan
Senate Republicans
Fred Kerr
Joan Finney
Kerr
Pratt Area
Senate
Dave Kerr
Hutchinson
Hitler memo to teachers shocks New York students
Pictures of Adolf Hitler with the caption When I come back no more Mr. Nice Guy were mailed to 28 teachers at Stuyvesant High School. Police classified the act as antiSemitic bias crime. The letters postmarked April 20 bore the return address of the Jewish Educational Center.
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NEW York (Ap
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Stuyvesant High
David Dinkins
New York Newsday
Jewish Educational Center
George Solomon
New Dietary Pyramid Replaces Food Wheel Guidance
Washington AP The Agriculture Department unveils a pyramid shaped chart promoting more grains fruits and vegetables and less meat and fat. After years of study and industry backing Secretary Edward Madigan releases the chart based on 1990 guidelines with nine to eleven daily grain servings at the base and three to five servings of vegetables and two to three servings of fruit.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Edward Madigan
Peo
Barkis Laments Finney Veto Of Education Commission
Kansas House Speaker Barkis criticized Gov. Finney for vetoing a bill to create a 39 member Kansas Commission on Education Restructuring and Accountability. The panel would study elementary and secondary reform, backed by KNEA and school boards, with Bowden predicting an override bid. Finney argued resources should aid direct classroom needs.
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Topeka
Kan
Marvin Barkis
Joan Finney
Barkis
State Board of Education
Special Committee On
Kansas National Education Association
Kansas Association of School Boards
Louisburg
Rick Bowden
D Goddard
House Education Committee
Finney
Bowden
Board of Regents
State Library
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