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THURSDAY • AUGUST 14 • 2014
Chancellor balks at plan for funding
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Regents considering performance-based budgeting proposal By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild
Valley Falls — The Kansas Board of Regents and key state legislators on Wednesday agreed to move forward on a possible change in higher education funding that would be based on the attainment of specific goals. But Kansas University Gray-Little Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little spoke against the proposal. “The fact is that most places that have done performance-based funding, it has not worked,” she said. Regents Chairman Kenny Wilk, however, said he hoped to have a performance-based budgeting proposal ready by the end of Please see REGENTS, page 2A
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STUDENTS SMILE AT THEIR TEACHERS and other members of the Woodlawn Elementary School staff as they wait for the doors to open Wednesday on the first day of school. TOP PHOTO: First-grader Reed Schmidt listens to his teacher explain the rules about carrying scissors on the first day at Woodlawn. See the photo gallery at LJWorld.com/backtoschool14.
Governor insists repetition of ‘liberal Lawrence’ nothing personal
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COOL CLASSES By Elliot Hughes Twitter: @elliothughes12
By Peter Hancock
Not that history, English and other staples of American education aren’t interesting in their own right, but if Lawrence students wanted to branch out in their class selection, where might they go? Here are five courses that offer students a different sort of classroom experience.
Medical Careers program, Free State High School Aspiring physicians are exposed to plenty in this 5-year-old program. In five courses students get the chance to visit simulation labs at Neosho County and Johnson County community colleges, enroll in a Certified Nursing Assistant class at NCCC and tour facilities at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Jane Rock, a medical careers teacher, said the courses are known to be demanding — two tests on medical terms almost weekly — but still are relatively Please see CLASSES, page 2A
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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL automotive and welding instructor Luke Lang also teaches a class on robotics, in which students construct robots for competition.
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Topeka — It’s no secret that Gov. Sam Brownback is a conservative who has no particular fondness for liberal politics. It’s also no secret that the Lawrence community is widely viewed as being more liberal than the rest of the state. But when Brownback routinely refers to his opponent, Democrat Paul Davis, as a “liberal Lawrence lawyer,” his campaign aides say people in Lawrence should not take offense. “It’s not intended to be a pejorative on the city of Lawrence,” said Brownback
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Editor’s note: As school gets underway, the Journal-World will highlight five great things about the Lawrence school district on the first five days of the school year.
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‘Very hard to lose him’
Vol.156/No.226 28 pages
A retired Haskell administrator killed in an accident Tuesday is remembered by faculty and students at the university for his dedication to education. Page 3A
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