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An update on public school construction
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Catholics may find shifting landscape challenging to navigate By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
ously operated elementary school in the district. At the end of the school year, Cordley was emptied for major construction and students and staff will use the former East Heights Elementary School this year.
Catholic voters in the United States have seldom been of one voice. That’s been true in Kansas, where three of the last five governors have been Catholic — Sam Brownback, Kathleen Sebelius and Joan Finney — even though they each reflected very different views on issues such as abortion and health care. But for Catholic voters who try to adhere to church teachings in their voting choices, this year may be especially difficult as leaders of the church consider making changes to the document it uses to guide Catholic voters at the ballot box. At a meeting in New Orleans earlier this month, the Pope Francis U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops agreed unanimously to begin the process of making what they said will be “minor changes” to what is known as the Faithful Citizenship document, the church’s guide on issues ranging from abortion and health care to media ownership and farm policy. “When this was addressed on the floor of the meeting, it was raised that the public landscape has shifted,” said Don Clemmer,
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DEAN YOUNGER, CONSTRUCTION MANAGER for the Lawrence school district, passes under a verse from the Langston Hughes poem “Youth” as he leads a recent tour of the construction projects at Langston Hughes Elementary School. In the top photo, Dale Wolford, of Oliver Electric, climbs a ladder to work on a two-classroom addition to the school. The school will be adding four classrooms in all, two of which are tornado safe, in addition to other improvements.
District’s $92.5M bond issue projects well underway By Stephen Montemayor Twitter: @smontemayor
Some of the 10 Lawrence public school buildings at which bond issue construction projects are underway this summer look like fullfledged work zones. Other projects are more subtle.
Each represents the start of a $92.5 million bond issue voters approved in 2013 that will touch every school while adding a new $5.7 million college and career center. East and central Lawrence schools are seeing the most drastic changes. Like Cordley Elementary, built in 1915 and the oldest continu-
Local group improving lives in Kenya
LAWRENCE PHYSICIAN Stephen Segebrecht attends the dedication this month of a library in Kenya that the group he leads, Kansas to Kenya, is helping to build.
By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce
When Lawrence physician Stephen Segebrecht did a mission trip to Kenya in 2005, he helped provide medical care to residents of the im-
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Kansas teachers are getting politically active this summer, hoping to persuade voters it’s time for a change in Topeka. Page 3A
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