State moves to broaden licensure for special education teachers
A proposed change in Kansas would license special education teachers to work with a broader range of students, aiding rural districts with shortages. The plan, part of an eight year redesign, faces a June 13 vote by the State Board of Education and aims to create five endorsements including adaptive, functional, gifted, deaf or hard of hearing, and visually impaired.
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Harris News Service
Topeka
Andy Tompkins
State Board of Education
Kansas Department of Education
KU launches $500 million fund drive at University
Lawrence AP KU alumni and officials plan a major endowment campaign with a working goal of 500 million. A feasibility study shows potential to raise nearly half a billion dollars as a steering committee prepares for the third KU Endowment Association campaign in 30 years. The drive would build on Campaign Kansas and the Program for Progress, with donors identified, volunteers organized, and a campaign name logo and goal approved. Committee includes Gayle Sayers Kansas graduate and Chancellor Robert Hemenway. Sally Hoglund also joins.
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Enron Oil & Gas Co
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Program For Progress
Campaign Kansas
NFL
Gayle Sayers
Chicago
Robert Hemenway
Sally Hoglund
Civil War cannons eyed for Hutchinson display restoration
Hutchinson plans to refurbish two bronze Civil War cannons from 1917 and display them outside the Kansas National Guard Armory and at the veterans memorial. A 1997 study valued each cannon at about 100000, with restoration estimated at 80000 and city funding up to 27500.
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Hutchinson
Nancy Scott
Cou
Soldiers and Sailors
Scott
Kansas National Guard
Veterans Memorial
Wyandotte Judge to Lead American Lung Association
Cordell Meeks Jr. of Wyandotte County will become president of the American Lung Association in May 2001, heading a 27 member national board. A Kansas City, Kansas native and district court judge since 1981, he has led local health groups and served on multiple boards including Rockhurst University and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. He was elected at the Toronto conference on May 5.
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Kansas City, Kan
Wyandotte
American Lung Association
Cordell Meeks Jr
ALA
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Orga
Kansas
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Kan
Toronto
Wyandotte Health Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
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