Lawrence Journal-World 04-05-2016

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SCOTUS overturns Kan. sex offender conviction Glow burn By Peter Hancock

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A rainbow appears over burning grass at the Baker Wetlands on Monday. Wetlands Education Coordinator Roger Boyd, pictured in photo at left, was on site Monday morning helping with the annual burn, which removes dead grasses and encourages new growth. Watch a video at LJWorld.com/wetlands16

Teachers seek more time for lunch, planning By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

Proposed adjustments to the schedule of the Lawrence school district’s elementary schools would give students more time for lunch and teachers more time for planning. A committee of district teachers and administrators recommended the changes, which would add five minutes to the elementary school day and extend students’ lunch period from 25 to 30 minutes.

“We thought the addia report to negotiators tional time to eat lunch on both sides. Teachwould benefit both the ers representing the teachers and the stulocal teachers union dents, especially in and district administralarger buildings where tors negotiate annually it takes more time for SCHOOLS to update the district’s students to get to [the master teacher contract. school cafeteria],” Sunflower The committee, made up of Elementary teacher Pam Pow- union and district representaers told attendees at the dis- tives, met throughout Februtrict’s teacher contract nego- ary and March ahead of pretiation meeting on Monday. senting its recommendation Powers co-chairs the El- to negotiators on Monday. ementary Plan-Time Com- Another recommendation of mittee, which presented the the committee would set aside schedule changes as part of an additional two days of

planning time for all certified elementary staff — such as teachers, para-educators and special education teachers — each school year. “We wanted it to benefit all certified elementary staff regardless of their position,” said Kirsten Wondra, co-chair of the committee and assistant director of curriculum, instruction and assessment for the district. “…We wanted everyone to have more plan time.” Please see TEACHERS, page 5A

AT&T offers gigabit service to select neighborhoods Town Talk F Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

or those of you who want faster Internet speeds at your Lawrence home, here’s something to keep an eye on: AT&T has quietly begun offering gigabit Internet service in a few select Lawrence neighborhoods. AT&T officials told me that the company recently began offering the service in a couple of newer neighborhoods on the western side of town,

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than a large-scale launch. “It is in the hundreds,” Lester said of the number of Lawrence homes that are eligible for the super-fast broadband speeds. Gigabit service is the same type of super-fast Internet speed that the much-touted Google Fiber project brought to parts of Kansas City.

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Please see SCOTUS, page 2A

Pompeo slams Moran over flip-flop Wichita (ap) — Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo on Monday accused fellow Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of saying one thing in Kansas and another in Washington about filling a vacancy on the Supreme Pompeo Court, prompting speculation that the House member could be planning a primary challenge against the incumbent senator.

Please see GIGABIT, page 5A

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but they didn’t give me more precise details. Instead, the company has a website — att. com/gigapower — that allows you to check your address to see if the gigabit service is offered. Most of you in Lawrence will find that it is not offered, yet. Chris Lester, a spokesman for AT&T, told me the Lawrence project is a more of a testing-ofthe-waters type of effort rather

Topeka — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned the conviction of a Kansas man who was charged with failing to update his registration as a sex offender after he left the state and moved to the Philippines. In a unanimous opinion written by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the court threw out the conviction of Lester Ray Nichols for failing to re-register, and it clarified the scope of a federal law known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, or SORNA. That law was enacted in 2009 to bring federal uniformity to earlier laws enacted by Congress and all 50 states known as “Megan’s law” that require convicted sex offenders to register with law enforcement agencies, reporting their name, address and places of work or school.

Please see MORAN, page 5A

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