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DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS VOTERS WAIT TO BE COUNTED in the track and field area of Liberty Memorial Central Middle School on Saturday. Voters had to be counted outside because both gyms inside the school were filled to capacity.
Sanders, Cruz win Kansas caucuses Douglas County voters Kansas caucuses by the numbers turn out in droves 81,000
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A big turnout in Douglas County for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders helped push him over the top in the Kansas Democratic caucuses on Saturday, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won both the local Republican caucuses and the statewide GOP vote. Both Sanders and Cruz took Kansas by more than two-toone margins over their nearest rivals, according to preliminary vote totals from both state parties. More voters than expected turned out for both the Re-
publican and Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday in Douglas County. Long lines at the GOP caucus in Lawrence produced some frustration. And so many turned out in the Democratic caucus that hundreds of voters had to gather outside on a middle school football field to be counted. Sanders nearly swept the caucus in Lawrence, winning 81.4 percent of the vote. But Hillary Clinton won just enough to remain viable in the 2nd State Senate District caucus.
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approximate number of voters who took part in the Kansas GOP percent of the vote caucuses this year, compared with 29,857 Bernie Sanders received in Lawrence. Sanders in 2012 beat Hillary Clinton 68-32 percent overall in Kansas.
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percent of the vote won by Ted Cruz in Kansas, followed by Donald Trump with 23 percent
39,000 approximate number of Democratic caucus votes counted in Kansas this year, up from 36,723 in 2008
— Source: Kansas Democratic and Republican parties
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As district prepares to expand blended learning, concerns remain By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
Andy Bricker’s classroom is empty. Backpacks and notebooks are laid about, but the students aren’t at their desks. They’re in the school’s rotunda, in the hallways, going up or down the steps. Small groups of students go from station to station throughout the school, directing and focusing telescopes on galaxies not so far away. It’s daytime, and the students are indoors, but images of the galaxies are displayed on computer screens a couple hundred yards away, roughly the same size as they’d be in the night sky,
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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR KASSIDI NORRIS LAUGHS as a friend down the hallway intentionally blocks her view with the telescope as she and classmates Jeffon Moten, left, and Eggy Phiomavong work on a field project during Andy Bricker’s blended learning astronomy and geology class Monday at Lawrence High School. Students in Bricker’s class spent part of the period receiving instruction on using the device and were then sent off into the hallways to locate various telescopes and then aim them at laptops featuring imagery of galaxies for them to classify.
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Bricker explained as he walked from group to group, checking in. The students are working on classifying the galaxies for Bricker’s astronomy and geology class, a blended learning classroom at Lawrence High School. The day’s class period began with a short prelude to the day’s activities. “Let me tell you the general idea, and then I’m going to turn you loose,” Bricker told his students. Next class period, Bricker said the students will enter their findings into a spreadsheet on a shared online drive, and the class will go over their observations.
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