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WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 15 • 2014
Restoring budget for higher-ed uncertain
Hair-raising weather
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KU SENIOR ANNA MAGES 22, OF OTTAWA, can’t do much about her hair blowing around on her way home from campus. Tuesday’s winds gusted up to 30 miles per hour.
Kidney transplant goes smoothly By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
After suffering from kidney failure for a year and a half, Mike Wormsley finally found an organ donor: his co-worker at Lawrence’s Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, Scott Forkenbrock. With that out of the way, all that was left was the procedure, which went off without a hitch Tuesday morning at Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan.
“Both of them are doing very well,” Wormsley’s wife, Kea, said in a phone interview from the hospital Tuesday afternoon, the day the story of the two Lawrence middle school teachers was featured in the Journal-World. “The kidney started doing very well right away. There were absolutely no complications whatsoever.” Wormsley, who teaches eighth-grade American history, suffers from polycystic kidney disease, a hereditary condition that causes cysts
MIKE WORMSLEY TALKS TO HIS DOCTOR before his transplant surgery at Kansas University Hospital on Tuesday in this photo, submitted by his wife, Kea. to the form in the organs. It began dialysis, but the concan often lead to kidney fail- dition essentially caused the ure, which started happen- 62-year-old to put his life on ing to Wormsley in 2012. He Please see KIDNEY, page 2A
KANSAS BOARD OF EDUCATION
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The Kansas State Board of Education agreed today to “strongly recommend” that schools develop “individual plans of study” for each student, to guide them through their high school career and prepare them for their chosen career or field of study.
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you’ve got to have it,” said
can. “There’s more to it than that.” — Jim McNiece, Kansas State Board of Education member ISPs are mainly used for students in career and technical But the board stopped counselors to be able to education programs, or what short of mandating ISPs for meet such a mandate. once was known as vocational all students in all districts, “I think every school dis- education. But in 2011, when noting that some districts trict should have it, but I’m Kansas lawmakers passed a no longer have enough hesitant to mandate that Please see STUDY, page 2A
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At its Tuesday meeting, the City Commission approved funding a new arts and culture director position. Page 3A
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Topeka — Kansas House Republicans formed a committee Tuesday to study the merits of Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to increase funding for all-day kindergarten. House Speaker Ray Mer- LEGISLATURE rick, a Stilwell Republican, said the committee of seven Republicans and two Democrats will be tasked with looking at Brownback’s plan, as well as studies about the benefits of having young students spend the extra time in school. “There are many school districts in the state that already Please see FUNDING, page 5A
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I think every school district should have it, but board member Jim McI’m hesitant to mandate that you’ve got to have it.” Niece, a Wichita Republi-
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State recommends individual study plans By Peter Hancock
Topeka — Restoring budget cuts to higher education that were approved last year by Gov. Sam Brownback and Republican legislative leaders appears iffy at this point. “I don’t know if that is going to be possible or not,” said Kansas Board of Regents President and Chief Executive Officer Andy Tompkins. But, Tompkins Brownback said, “Hope springs eternal with me.” Tompkins and leaders of the six regents universities were summoned to meet Tuesday with Brownback one day before the governor outlines his priorities in the State
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