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Next year, state testing in public schools will be geared toward new Common Core standards By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Another batch of test results will come out this week, this one measuring how well Kansas students performed last year on the state’s own benchmarks for reading, math and other subjects. Unlike the National Assessment of Educational Progress, results of which were released Thursday, the state tests are given each year to every student in grades third through eighth and once in high school. SCHOOLS They are used mainly to measure the state’s compliance with federal education laws and regulations, as well as the state’s own standards for accrediting school districts. Since about 2002, the scores have been used to determine whether individual schools, districts and the state as a whole

KU women open season with a rout Kansas University’s women’s basketball team gets started with an 84-62 victory over Oral Roberts University at Allen Fieldhouse. Page 1B

Please see SCORES, page 2A HIGHER EDUCATION

Officials trying to clarify spending Higher education officials are poring over budget figures to clear up what they think are legislators’ misperceptions about their spending. Page 3A

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This area has been totally ravaged. Many lives were lost, a huge number of people are missing and basic services such as drinking water and electricity have been cut off.�

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ERIC AKERS, OF LAWRENCE, clears honeysuckle trees recently at Hidden Valley Camp, 3420 Bob Billings Parkway. The invasive honeysuckle was being removed so that other species of trees are able to grow. Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo

— Sebastien Sujobert, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tacloban, Philippines, where a devastating typhoon struck. Page 7A

LEO LANGLOIS, LEFT, AND MEL LISHER, veterans of the Korean War, were part of a group of 26 veterans from Kansas who got to visit Washington, D.C., earlier this year with the Honor Flight program. The two veterans of the “Forgotten War� were impressed by and grateful for the respect that was shown to them on the trip.

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INDEX Business 5A Classified 5B-10B Comics 9A Deaths 2A Events listings 10A, 2B Horoscope 9B Movies 4A Opinion 8A Puzzles 9B Sports 1B-4B Television 10A, 2B, 9B Vol.155/No.315 20 pages

By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com

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rmy Staff Sgt. Mel Lisher was in uniform when he stepped off a Greyhound bus in downtown Lawrence, slid into a taxi and gave the driver his parents’ address. “I told him I’d been in Korea,� Lisher said, to which the cabbie replied, “What’s going on over there?� That was 1953. What’s been called the “Forgotten War� had been raging for three years, and Lisher had been on the ground

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Once highly recommended by naturalists, plant is now ‘choking out everything’ in state’s wooded areas By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com

Durand Reiber wouldn’t go as far as to call bush honeysuckle the bane of her existence. But it’s close. In her 12 years as manager of the Lawrence Hidden Valley Camp, Reiber has spent much of her time trying to eradicate the invasive species, which crowds out plants native to Kansas. Despite her best efforts, Reiber faces a nearly impossible task. “It has no predators, no diseases, nothing to naturally control it,� she said of the leafy green plant that sprouts tiny red berries. On a recent day at the privately owned Please see PLANT, page 6A

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