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School board names superintendent finalists By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
The Lawrence school district has announced the names of three finalists for its open superintendent position.
The finalists are Kyle Hayden of Lawrence, Shellaine Kiblinger of Hutchinson and Michael Munoz of Rochester, Minn. Hayden is currently assistant superintendent of business and opera-
tions for the Lawrence school district. Kiblinger is superintendent of the Hutchinson school district, and Munoz is superintendent of the Rochester school district. The Lawrence school board met in a closed
executive session Friday evening to determine the finalists. School board President Vanessa Sanburn was happy with the outcome. “We’re pleased with the quality of applicants and we’re excited to get
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gineering building, also is already on Skype for Business, as the building was constructed with no copper wiring for traditional phones, Day said. “That is the model going forward for new buildings or major remodels or major new additions,” he said. Please see SKYPE, page 7A
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Topeka — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., brought his struggling presidential campaign to Kansas on Friday, hoping a string of endorsements from the state’s Republican elite would help him notch another win by taking the state’s GOP caucus today. A crowd of about 300 people greeted Rubio outside an airplane hangar at Forbes Field in Topeka, where he was flanked by Gov. Sam Brownback, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts and his two state co-chairs, State Sen. Terry Bruce of Hutchinson and Rep. Erin Davis of Olathe. In a 30-minute speech that touched on a wide range of topics — from foreign policy and the military, to health care and his own family history as the son of Cuban immigrants — Rubio took aim at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by insisting Rubio is the only candidate in the race who can unite the Republican Party. “Because the truth is, 65 percent of people who have already voted
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Trump holding rally in Wichita today GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump will host a Wichita rally today before the Kansas caucuses, according to a Friday press release from his campaign. Trump will fly to Kansas before heading later in the day to Florida, which is also selecting its GOP candidate today. The Trump rally will take place at the Century II Performing Arts & ConvenTrump tion Center, 225 West Douglas Ave., in Wichita. Doors are expected to open at 7 a.m., with a planned start time of 9 a.m. for the rally. Attendees were encouraged to register online Friday to guarantee admittance, though tickets are not required, the campaign said.
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ov. Sam Brownback and the Kansas Legislature have lower approval ratings in Kansas than President Barack Obama, according to a recent poll from Fort Hays State University. In fact, of all the public institutions and elected officials asked about in the poll, the one with the highest approval rating was one that Brownback and lawmakers spend a great deal of time attacking: the Kansas Supreme Court. That may not be saying much, given that only 45 percent of those surveyed said they
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search for a new superintendent. Consultants with the firm called finalists Friday evening to arrange for a second round of interviews for Monday and Tuesday.
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wo years from now, if things go according to plan, Kansas University’s Lawrence campus will no longer have desktop telephones. Instead, all faculty and staff will be making calls through the Internet using their computers or cellphones. KU Information Technology is about a year into a three-year process of replacing the campus’s traditional phone service — and the landlines it requires — with the Internetbased Skype for Business service, said David Day, director of KU IT external affairs. “It’s kind of blurring the lines between phone calls, instant messaging, voicemail and email into one package or one system that all operates together,” Day said. Usage statistics show that landline phone calls at KU have declined anyway — drastically. Since 2008, the number of calls to and from KU phone numbers has decreased 55 percent, from 6.9 million in 2008 to 3.1 million in 2015, Day said. The total minutes of those calls dropped from 19.2 million to 10.2 million in the same time frame. Those decreases have been happening as email, instant messaging, cellphones and other communication options have grown in popularity, Day said. KU IT, naturally, was the first department to do away with landlines, Day said. Everyone in LEEP2, the new en-
to know more about each of them in the next process,” Sanburn said after the board adjourned following about an hour of deliberation. The district hired the national firm McPherson & Jacobson to assist in its
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