Legislative Panel Hears Farm Groups Suggestions
Kansas farm groups testified before a 13 member bipartisan committee urging across the board budget cuts and a 1985 farm bill promising higher parity prices. They supported soil and water protections and a moratorium on foreclosures while lawmakers heard about tax free bonds to aid family farms and parity based pricing proposals.
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Topeka
Kan
Lawrence
Likes
Special Joint Committee On
Kansas Agriculture Policy
U.S
Cozart
Farm Talk
Parsons
District Eyes Curriculum Shifts and Funding Concerns
The district plans to raise graduation requirements to meet State Board standards with biology as a base lab science and new courses for sophomores and seventh graders. Reading reforms aim to bolster underperformers while teachers seek improved reading strategies. A kindergarten screening test is proposed to gauge readiness for first grade. Funds for teaching supplies were trimmed from $80,973 to balance budget, with extra state aid partially redirected to capital outlay, drawing protest from staff over perceived shortfalls in essential classroom materials.
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State Board of Education
OHS
Ottawa
Ed Burrichter
Jim Grogan
Connie Wright
Nelson
Budget squeeze prompts magazine cuts and salary share concerns
A district faces a tight $400 budget forcing a temporary subscription to U S News & World Report. Officials note that eighty cents of every dollar goes to salaries and benefits leaving 20 cents for other needs while exploring state funds to bolster general support. The board plans future updates.
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U.S. News & World Report
Nelson
OHS
Tobacco Subsidies Choking Taxpayers
Washington AP reports a GAO review found federal price support loans for tobacco farmers trigger multi million losses. 1982 flue cured crop losses may reach 164 million with July 1982 to June 1984 losses near six million, due to interest calculation gaps between Treasury and CCC.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
Agriculture Department
Inspector General
GAO
Congress
Treasury Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
Mark Hatfield
R-Cre
Associa
Treasury
Senate
Ron Buckhart
Agriculture
John Ford
Tobacco Institute
Credit Corporation
Tobacco Associations
Tobacco Association
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National Organization of Raw Material
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Committee of Kansas Farm Organizations
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Wolf Creek
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Augusta
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