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- Higher education affordability important to regents leader
- July 23, 2008
- Donna Shank wants higher education to be available for all Kansans.
- Safe routes to schools goal of program
- July 23, 2008
- A program under way in Kansas strives to make sure children get to school safely and help their physical fitness along the way.
- Success continues at state’s first virtual school
- Basehor-Linwood blazed trail that’s now followed by more than 30 Kansas school districts
- July 23, 2008
- As far as virtual schools go, the Basehor-Linwood school district has been ahead of the curve since its beginning in 1998.
- New name reflects services of continuing-ed program
- Johnson County Adult Education one of many programs in area
- July 23, 2008
- For people preparing to take the General Educational Development test, Project Finish has been more than just a resource.
- Curriculum employs team-based active learning
- July 23, 2008
- A model program that stresses active learning methods and the incorporation of character development in curriculum is poised to begin its second year in four Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Schools.
- Programs battle childhood obesity
- July 23, 2008
- In schools across the nation, there has always been a lot of attention given to increasing test scores. But until recently, not a lot of attention has been given to children’s increasing pants sizes.
- Push toward all-day kindergarten takes root
- July 23, 2008
- Offering all-day kindergarten is a trend that has proved successful is districts across the state.
- Not your mother’s home-ec class
- July 23, 2008
- Family and consumer sciences, or FACS, as the course is now called, is a lot different from the courses taught 30 years ago, said Marie Nave, a newly retired FACS teacher from the De Soto USD 232.
- Continuing education sites throughout area
- July 23, 2008
- Here’s a list of continuing-education sites throughout Douglas, Wyandotte, Johnson and Leavenworth counties
- Technology offers classroom flexibility
- July 23, 2008
- Keeping in mind that no two students learn in the same way, at least one area school district uses technology throughout its classrooms to vary instructional options for its teachers.
- USD 232 2008-2009 budget raises levy 2.5 mills
- July 23, 2008
- The De Soto Board of Education Monday approved 4-1 to publish the 2008-09 proposed budget that includes about $16 million more in expenditures than last year’s budget. Board member Bill Fletcher dissented; board members Randy Johnson and Jim Thomas were absent from the meeting. The board will have a budget hearing at its next meeting at 6 p.m. Aug. 4.
- Officer, sheriff battle for GOP votes
- July 23, 2008
- Ken Smith said he feels a tinge of pity for his opponent for the Republican nomination for Johnson County Sheriff.
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Point of View
Do you think Republican Sam Brownback will be the next governor of Kansas?
I think Brownback is a sure thing, unless something changes drastically.
