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Documents to be used to reduce suspended voters By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — Here’s another twist in the tale of the more than 18,000 Kansans whose voter registrations have been put on hold because of lack of proof of U.S. citizenship. Election officials reported

Monday they are using a recent release of documents to whittle down the number of registrations in what is called “suspense.� The Kansas Department of Revenue recently sent to the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office approximately 6,100 Division of Motor Vehicle records

that contained citizenship documents, according to a memo from the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office. “These records should reduce the number of ‘suspense’ records due to lack of proof of citizenship,� the memo stated. The Secretary of State’s Of-

Voting rights groups have threatened to sue Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, saying he has defied a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

fice did not have information on how many incomplete voter registrations these documents cleared up, but Douglas County received its batch of 438 records Monday afternoon. It processed 50 of the records and was able to finalize the Please see VOTING, page 2A

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Many argue that licensing standards for career and technical educators need to be updated By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

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CAROL BUCHHEISTR AND PATTI LYON, both of Lawrence, head to exercise class Monday, passing some Maple leaves that have changed color near 13th and New Hampshire streets.

Lecompton officials want answers on post office Residents fear mail facility is on track to close; feds say they have no such plan By Elliot Hughes ehughes@ljworld.com

Down the road from where Paul Bahnmaier works — at the Territorial Capital Museum, once the state Capitolto-be — sits the subject of much distress for him and others in historic Lecompton. It’s the local United States Post Office, whose full-time retail hours were slashed earlier this year, now down to 21 and a half hours per week, with every weekday given just four hours in the

morning. This has made Bahnmaier, the president of the Lecompton Historical Society, and the city government fearful that it’s a warning sign of the office boarding up one day — although the United States Postal Service has said it has no such plans. The Lecompton residents’ concerns, warranted or otherwise, range from practical to existential. They worry about the window hours affecting working residents

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As school districts throughout Kansas, including Lawrence, put more emphasis on career and technical education, many of them are encountering a common obstacle: finding qualified, licensed instructors to teach those programs. “There are some potentially good career and tech ed teachers out there who come from business and industry,� said Patrick Kelly, who directs CTE programs for the Lawrence school district. “They know a ton about the content. They’ve been in industry and can really help us give kids real-world understanding.� But what many of those industry veterans often lack, SCHOOLS Kelly said, is specific training in how to be a teacher — what education officials call “pedagogy,� the methods and practices of managing a classroom, designing a course with lesson plans, working with students of all different ability levels, designing tests and monitoring their progress. There is now a wide-ranging debate in education circles about how important that training is, especially in the areas of career and technical training. While some argue that only trained and licensed teachers should be in charge of teaching students in public schools, others argue that schools should be more flexible in allowing people with direct business and professional experience to teach career-training courses. Kelly said he can see both sides of the debate, although he tends to align with the Please see TEACHING, page 2A

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Kansas Supreme Court justices are set to hear the first appeal of a Hard 50 prison sentence since lawmakers changed the way the sentence is imposed. Page 3A

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