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THE SIX FINALISTS for the City Commission seat, left to right: Lisa Larsen, Scott Morgan, Joe O’Brien, Terry Riordan, David Schauner and Karl Watson.
Commission: All 6 finalists will move on to interviews By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
KEL CATTERTON, AN EIGHTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER AT LIBERTY MEMORIAL CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, engages with students before working on a class project Tuesday. Kansas has been ranked the ninth best state in the country for teachers, according to a new study by the financial website WalletHub. One of the metrics used in the findings showed Kansas ranked third for pupil-to-teacher ratio.
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here have to be a lot of teachers in Lawrence — the education capital of Kansas — feeling mighty good these days. After all, Kansas is one of the better places in the country to be a teacher. Kansas has been ranked the ninth best state in the country for teachers, according to a new study by the financial website WalletHub. The website looked at a variety of factors to compile the rankings. Here’s where Kansas ranked on the various metrics:
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Kansas was ranked third in the U.S. in teacher-to-pupil ratio... ... 11th-best for unemployment rate among teachers... ... and 16th for teachers’ average starting salaries.
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working, is landing president of Kansas University advanced techgrad Brian McClennologies at Uber. don one of the Before that, he was engineering world’s a vice president at top honors. Google, where he McClendon will co-founded Google be inducted this Earth (and made weekend into the Lawrence the National Academy McClendon center of it). Acof Engineering for, cording to KU, his according to KU, leaderformer Google colleagues ship resulting in “widenominated him for the spread, accurate and useful National Academy. geographic information.” Please see HONOR, page 2A McClendon is vice
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ast weekend, when some friends were “Ubering” home after a few beverages on our patio, nobody worried about how the software was designed — only about whether driver Kelly (or whatever her name was) was far enough away for them to have a final final. But the behind-thescenes part of geographical software development, which most users don’t think about as long as it’s
The Lawrence City Commission unanimously voted Tuesday to advance all six finalists to the interview stage in the process to fill the vacancy left by former Mayor Jeremy Farmer. Commissioners were given the opportunity to cut any of the finalists recommended by an advisory committee or add any qulified candidate, including eight others who applied for the position but were previously eliminated. The commission will hear from the candidates at a final interview Thursday. “I would strongly recommend that we invite all six to participate in this process,” Mayor Mike Amyx said. “I think we need to hear from these folks and be able to get their answers to questions. I think the committee did a great job and made hard decisions.” A 12-member advisory committee narrowed the pool of applicants to six after a four-hour public forum Sept. 24.
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City to take over school inspections By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
The city of Lawrence will take over inspections of the remaining six school makeovers that are part of a $92.5 million bond issue, city commissioners voted Tuesday. Commissioners unanimously approved an agreement saying that city staff would conduct building and fire code plan reviews, issue permits and inspect the construction of projects at Schwegler, Deerfield, Pinckney, Sunflower, Broken Arrow and Prairie Park elementary schools. Please see SCHOOL, page 2A
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