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Do you think the State Board of Education should lower its school accreditation standards to make sure more students succeed?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No. Making standards easier sends the wrong message. We should demand excellence. | 57% | |
| No. Students will work harder if they are motivated and challenged. | 21% | |
| Yes. Not all students are capable of reading and doing math at their grade level, so the system sets them up for failure. | 12% | |
| Yes. The current standards that all students will be grade-level proficient in reading and math by 2014 is unrealistic and could invite further court actions against the school system. | 6% | |
| Undecided. | 1% | |
| Total | 556 | |
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- Summer workout program going strong
- August 10, 2005
- It started as a workout for Lawrence High football players in 1984. Now, 22 years later, hundreds of people from the Lawrence community join Red Dog’s Dog Days.
- Judge rolls back Wal-Mart decision to courts
- August 10, 2005
- A Douglas County District Court judge has ruled that a full-blown trial is needed to determine whether developers should be allowed to build a Wal-Mart at Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive.
- City kickball, dodgeball registration deadline today
- Volleyball leagues to organize next week
- August 10, 2005
- If you’re still trying to line up a team to play city kickball or dodgeball, you’d better hurry — the deadline for registering is late this afternoon.
- Aquatic division offices to close Thursday
- August 10, 2005
- The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department’s Aquatic Division office will be closed Thursday for maintenance, city officials announced today.
- Lawrence staying hot
- August 10, 2005
- Get ready for another hot and sticky day. “By the afternoon, it’s going to feel hot, with temperatures headed into the mid 90s,” said Jennifer Schack, 6News meteorologist.
- Horoscopes
- August 10, 2005
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- Church expands with city
- St. Margaret’s project helps boost Lawrence’s building activity in July
- August 10, 2005
- A $1.358 million commercial construction project in northwest Lawrence is in God’s hands.
- People in the news
- August 10, 2005
- ¢ Tommy Lee says no marriage planned for him, Anderson ¢ Wife of ‘Superman’ faces battle with lung cancer ¢ Actors need more ‘Yee-haw’
- Iranian president says nuclear negotiations will continue
- August 10, 2005
- Iran’s president said Tuesday he will submit new proposals in negotiations over his country’s nuclear program but denounced a European offer of aid as an “insult,” as the U.N. nuclear agency tried to resolve the crisis without referring Tehran to the Security Council.
- Mentally ill man pleads guilty in shootings
- August 10, 2005
- A mentally ill man pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and 10 other charges Tuesday in a series of Ohio highway shootings and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
- Despite safe landing, future of shuttle still up in the air
- August 10, 2005
- Safely back on Earth, though not quite home. Now the shuttle faces an uncertain future.
- Suicide bomber targets U.S. convoy
- American soldier, six Iraqis killed in square during midday attack
- August 10, 2005
- A suicide bomb aimed at a U.S. military convoy tore through a busy downtown square at midday, killing a U.S. soldier and at least six Iraqis and injuring scores of people, while assassins gunned down 10 city police officers in five neighborhoods during a one-hour period.
- Students say they would work harder if schools expected more of them
- August 10, 2005
- The campaign to make high school more demanding seems to be picking up support from the people who have the biggest stake in the matter: the students themselves.
- Science standards advance, but not without controversy
- August 10, 2005
- Sparks flew Tuesday as the conservative majority on the State Board of Education advanced science standards that they said provided balance, but critics said will introduce religion into the classroom and hurt Kansas students.
- Sunflower League football notebook
- August 10, 2005
- Cleveland shocks K.C. with 11-run ninth inning
- August 10, 2005
- The Cleveland Indians barely could believe what they were watching in the ninth inning.
- Drawing a line on performance enhancers
- August 10, 2005
- People who don’t tell the truth are very good at lying to your face. Anyone who has watched the truth-shaving of such well-known confabulators as Ken Lay, Bill Clinton, Bernard Ebbers and Charles Keating knows what I mean.
- Sun continue West mastery
- August 10, 2005
- The Connecticut Sun have Los Angeles’ number this season and are winning virtually every time they play against the Western Conference.
- Two Jackson jurors regret voting for acquittal
- Mesereau dismisses comments as ‘outrageous’
- August 10, 2005
- Two of the jurors who voted to acquit Michael Jackson of child molestation and other charges say they regret their decisions and only went along with the others after a jury foreman threatened to remove them from the panel.
- Students’ return sparks a junk-food mania
- August 10, 2005
- While reading the newspaper the other morning, I was struck by a supermarket’s full-page ad featuring just eight sale items: Pepsi products, Twinkies and/or Hostess Cup Cakes, Miracle Whip, Cheerios, fun-size Snickers (aka Halloween candy out of season), apples, Handi Snacks pudding cups and Little Debbie snack cakes.
- Morris repays travel expenses
- August 10, 2005
- State Board of Education member Connie Morris has paid the state back for a trip to Florida, but on Tuesday was unapologetic about initially billing taxpayers for six nights in a $339 per night hotel and other expenses.
- Ballyhooed Texas linebacker comes to Kansas
- August 10, 2005
- Every year, someone sneaks into Kansas University’s preseason football workouts ready to make an unforeseen impact.
- Suspect captured in shooting of musician Marc Cohn
- Liberty Hall says it will reschedule canceled performance
- August 10, 2005
- A man suspected of shooting Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn during an attempted carjacking was arrested after a 5 1/2-hour standoff with police.
- Rising stars
- Lawrence musician adjusts to role with ‘next big thing’
- August 10, 2005
- Tonight, musicians Teddy Geiger and Justin Hosek will play a set during Acoustic Open Mic Night to friends and family and whoever else wanders into Lawrence’s Jazzhaus. Thursday night, the pair will perform to a sold-out Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
- Burnett wins fifth straight start
- Florida pitcher tosses three-hitter in 5-0 victory over Arizona
- August 10, 2005
- A.J. Burnett has a World Series ring from the 2003 season, the one he spent watching from the dugout after reconstructive elbow surgery.
- Contreras makes statement
- Ex-Yankee hurls seven scoreless innings in 2-1 victory
- August 10, 2005
- The Chicago White Sox pulled out all the stops Tuesday night in seizing a 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees:
- Judge saves embattled owner
- Hawks dispute stemmed from trade refusal
- August 10, 2005
- A judge stepped into the feud among Atlanta Hawks owners Tuesday, blocking the removal of Boston businessman Steve Belkin as managing partner.
- Eagles QB McNabb focused on winning
- August 10, 2005
- Donovan McNabb has handled everything from boos to a heavy rush in the same graceful manner.
- Lewis finally back with Ravens
- Running back returns after stint in federal prison
- August 10, 2005
- Jamal Lewis was back at Baltimore Ravens training camp, talking about “moving forward” and looking fit enough to do it - through linebackers.
- Mickelson endures major difference in majors this year
- August 10, 2005
- Phil Mickelson followed his jump for joy on the 18th green at Augusta last year with a great run in the majors.
- Relaxed Woods takes aim at third major
- ‘Some people still think I’m having a bad year,’ Tiger reveals
- August 10, 2005
- Tiger Woods stuck to his major-championship routine Tuesday, splitting the silence of dawn with a tee shot at 6:15 a.m. for a practice round at the PGA Championship with limited distractions.
- Bosox trade with Cubs for lefty
- August 10, 2005
- The Boston Red Sox tried to bolster their bullpen with yet another left-hander, getting Mike Remlinger and cash from the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday for minor-league pitcher Olivo Astacio.
- Texas’ Rogers gets reprieve
- August 10, 2005
- Kenny Rogers was reinstated Tuesday when an arbitrator ruled that commissioner Bud Selig went too far by suspending the Texas pitcher for 20 games and fining him $50,000 for shoving two cameramen.
- Disney board wins ruling
- Judge says directors didn’t violate duties
- August 10, 2005
- The Walt Disney Co.’s board did not breach its fiscal responsibilities by agreeing to hire Hollywood superagent Michael Ovitz as president in 1995 and then granting him a $140 million severance package when he left just 14 months later, a judge ruled Tuesday.
- Commodities
- August 10, 2005
- Kansas City company lays off 330 workers
- August 10, 2005
- Birch Telecom Inc. said Tuesday it had laid off 330 employees, or a third of its work force, as the telephone company continues to struggle under new rules restricting its access to local phone lines.
- Sprint and Nextel to merge Friday
- August 10, 2005
- Sprint Corp. said Tuesday it would complete its acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. on Friday and begin trading as a unified stock Monday.
- Fed continues to raise key rate
- Federal funds rate reaches 3.5 percent
- August 10, 2005
- The Federal Reserve pushed borrowing costs to their highest point in nearly four years Tuesday in an attempt to make sure the combination of high energy prices and a solidly growing economy doesn’t turn into a recipe for inflation.
- Whirlpool prices vary by model, type
- August 10, 2005
- Lower prices are helping put whirlpool tubs in more bathroom remodeling plans: Sales are growing by roughly 10 percent per year. While you can still pay $5,000 for a typical 5-by-3-foot tub, many are closer to $1,000.
- Kansas tops in overpaying jobless benefits
- State labor official blames outdated system
- August 10, 2005
- The state of Kansas overpaid $95 million in jobless benefits last year, which was the highest rate in the nation, according to a new federal report.
- Daily ticker
- August 10, 2005
- Cuban ‘candela’
- Bright light Ibrahim Ferrer illuminated island’s music for farthest corners of world
- August 10, 2005
- His charm, soulful melodies and contagious romanticism coaxed audiences out of their seats from Iceland to Israel. Singer Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, relished the worldwide attention that came late in his life so much that he never canceled a show, even in his final tour through Europe last month when he had to be pushed to some concerts in a wheelchair.
- Hagman, Gray return to ‘Dallas’
- August 10, 2005
- More than 20 years later, there’s still some heat in the burning question of the summer of ‘80: “Who shot J.R.?”
- It’s ‘Who shot J.R.?’ all over again (again)
- August 10, 2005
- Jason Alexander takes time off from his Chrysler commercials to grace “Unforgettable Moments in Television Entertainment: A Museum of Television & Radio Special” (7 p.m., NBC). The former “Seinfeld” sidekick appears with Michael Chiklis, Larry Hagman, Shelley Long, Bob Newhart, Doris Roberts, Cybill Shepherd and Donald Trump to discuss the comedies, dramas and reality series that changed television, and those shows that best reflected the nation’s mood or merely generated the greatest amount of water-cooler conversation.
- Al-Qaida video depicts attacks, military laptop
- August 10, 2005
- A purported al-Qaida-made video shows militants in Afghanistan - including Europeans, Arabs and others - preparing to attack U.S. troops and showing off what they said was a U.S. military laptop.
- Investigators: Oil-for-food bribes were widespread
- August 10, 2005
- Half the 4,500 companies that took part in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq paid kickbacks or illegal surcharges and are being given a chance to respond to the accusations, two top investigators told The Associated Press.
- U.S. soldier, 16 suspected rebels killed in fighting
- August 10, 2005
- Fighting sparked by an insurgent attack on patrolling coalition forces in southern Afghanistan killed one U.S. service member and at least 16 suspected Taliban rebels, amid spiraling violence ahead of key legislative elections, the military said Tuesday.
- Criminal investigation planned for sub accident
- August 10, 2005
- Russian prosecutors said Tuesday they have opened a criminal investigation into how seven men were trapped in a mini-submarine in the Pacific last week after initial findings pointed to negligence on the part of officials overseeing the mission.
- Secretive courts may be used for terror suspects
- August 10, 2005
- Britain is considering setting up secretive courts to make it easier to prosecute terror suspects - and to hold them without charge for longer than the current 14 days - as part of the crackdown following the deadly London bombings, officials said Tuesday.
- Robbers tunnel their way to $67M
- August 10, 2005
- Thieves spent three months tunneling under a busy city boulevard in northeastern Brazil to break into a Central Bank vault and pull off the biggest robbery ever in South America’s largest country.
- Fire rages at a chemical plant in suburban Detroit
- August 10, 2005
- A fire raged at a suburban Detroit chemical plant Tuesday night, forcing police to evacuate homes in a half-mile radius.
- Investigators find police helicopter was shot down
- August 10, 2005
- A sheriff’s department helicopter that crashed behind a home in Albuquerque during the weekend was brought down by gunfire, authorities said Tuesday.
- Pentagon plans to mark Sept. 11 anniversary
- August 10, 2005
- The Pentagon will hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing Tuesday.
- Four-star general relieved of duty
- ‘Personal conduct’ issues cited as cause for removal
- August 10, 2005
- Gen. Kevin P. Byrnes has been relieved of his command for “matters of personal conduct,” the Army announced Tuesday, the first time in a decade that a four-star officer has been stripped of his duties.
- Congressman: U.S. officials had data on 9-11 ringleader year before attacks
- August 10, 2005
- The 9-11 commission will investigate a claim that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn’t forward the information to law enforcement.
- Chemist may have created shark repellent
- August 10, 2005
- Eric Stroud, a research chemist who heads the Oak Ridge, N.J.-based company Shark Defense, has tested a chemical substance he believes will drive sharks away from dangerous fishing lines and, perhaps, also protect people.
- Maoist rebels kill at least 40 soldiers
- August 10, 2005
- Communist insurgents killed at least 40 soldiers in fierce clashes between the military and Maoist rebels in the country’s remote, mountainous northeast over the past couple of days, Nepal’s army said in a statement Tuesday.
- Renewed violence may foreshadow crisis
- Abbas tries to reassert control as bombings, kidnappings plague Gaza Strip
- August 10, 2005
- A new wave of street battles, bombings and short-term kidnappings of Western aid workers in the Gaza Strip has raised concerns that conditions in the occupied territory could devolve into open warfare between rival Palestinian factions once Israel pulls out of the disputed region in the coming weeks.
- Rumsfeld gives grim prediction about Iraq
- August 10, 2005
- With a constitutional referendum approaching in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday delivered the grim prediction that has become the Bush administration’s standard message before each political milestone there: Violence would spike as insurgents try to derail the march toward democracy.
- Panda cub given clean bill of health
- August 10, 2005
- Washington’s most famous baby is said to be growing quickly and thriving.
- $6.5 million settlement reached over Picasso looted by Nazis in WWII
- August 10, 2005
- A Chicago art collector has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle a claim that a Picasso oil painting she bought in 1975 was looted by the Nazis.
- Runaway bride begins community service
- August 10, 2005
- Instead of cutting out of town, runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks is cutting lawns.
- Douglas County Fair champs share recipes
- August 10, 2005
- Ashley Lesser, age 12, from the Stull Busy Beavers 4-H Club, exhibited the Strawberry Daisy bread that was awarded the Grand Champion Nonperishable Food Product at the fair.
- The many benefits of green tea
- August 10, 2005
- Increasingly, it seems, there’s evidence that green tea is good for us as well as pleasing to the taste.
- Government drops N.Y. Times subpoenas
- August 10, 2005
- The federal government has dropped subpoenas that sought notes from The New York Times and the writer of a series of 1998 articles about a former CIA operative and Cuban militant.
- Leaders say Lutheran Church split unlikely
- August 10, 2005
- The questions and comments about homosexuality were low key but emotional for the 1,018 delegates attending the weeklong biennial national assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Tuesday.
- Pilot to accompany butterflies along route
- Monarch migration
- August 10, 2005
- When the monarch butterflies later this month begin their 2,500-mile flight from Canada through Kansas to central Mexico, someone will be tagging along.
- Lower bar for schools advised
- Attorney general, senator say easier standards will result in fewer failures
- August 10, 2005
- Two heavyweights in the fight against a school finance lawsuit urged the State Board of Education on Tuesday to lower its school accreditation standards.
- Bush discusses concerns on energy, health-care costs
- August 10, 2005
- President Bush and his top economic advisers sat down Tuesday and talked about something that people across the country talk about almost every time they pay their bills - the rising cost of gasoline and medical care.
- Officer killed as inmate flees with armed wife
- August 10, 2005
- An inmate considered to be “extremely violent” escaped Tuesday after his wife gunned down and killed a guard who was escorting the shackled prisoner outside a courthouse, authorities said.
- Downtown’s ever-evolving landscape a sign of vitality
- High costs of doing business worry some, but that’s not stopping Ben & Jerry’s
- August 10, 2005
- On a hot August day when temperatures had reached into the high 90s, Rob Paverud couldn’t help but welcome news Tuesday that Ben & Jerry’s is putting an ice cream shop into downtown Lawrence.
- Animal, tree may have caused power outage
- August 10, 2005
- An animal or a tree limb making contact with a power line was the likely cause for a power outage Monday night in Eudora.
- Search for runaway leads to drug bust
- August 10, 2005
- A search for a runaway Leavenworth County teen led to a drug bust Monday morning at a local hotel, according to police.
- Demolition derby winners announced
- August 10, 2005
- Kyle Guenther of Overbrook was the grand prize winner in Friday night’s demolition derby at the Douglas County Fair.
- Chihuahua dies after attack by terrier
- August 10, 2005
- A Chihuahua died after being attacked by a neighbor’s Jack Russell terrier during the weekend in the 2700 block of Maverick Lane, according to police.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- August 10, 2005
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.25 at two stations: Presto Phillips 66, at Ninth and Louisiana streets, and Citgo, at Ninth and Iowa streets. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.
- Students journey into South Africa
- Two Lawrence High teachers lead youngsters into wild
- August 10, 2005
- They toured the wilds where no fence separates man from elephant, giraffe or lion.
- Murderer up for parole
- August 10, 2005
- A man who strangled a woman and left her body in a wooded area in East Lawrence nearly 16 years ago will soon be up for parole.
- Construction to end before school starts
- August 10, 2005
- Though it’s been a busy summer for construction projects in Lawrence public schools, students won’t hear hammers banging when they return to school next week.
- Commissioners agree to property tax cut
- Rate will fall with mill reduction
- August 10, 2005
- The city’s “savings account” will be less than previously expected, but so will residents’ property tax bills after commissioners Tuesday night approved a last-minute reduction in the mill levy.
- State starts ‘water banking’ program
- August 10, 2005
- It’s called water banking, but don’t expect to see bank presidents swimming around in three-piece suits. It’s a pilot program the state started to better distribute water and save it for a day when it might be needed more than now.
- School district drops two disputed books
- August 10, 2005
- Two of the 14 books that a group of suburban Kansas City parents found objectionable have been removed from the high school curriculum in the Blue Valley School District.
- Tusk find won’t halt work on Wichita freeway project
- August 10, 2005
- Construction will resume on a Wichita freeway project after archaeologists determined there were no signs of ancient human activity near the site where a mammoth tusk was found last week.
- Rules set to protect young meth victims
- August 10, 2005
- When police found a methamphetamine lab in a home two years ago, they arrested two adults living there but didn’t know what to do with the two children. They called Harvey County Atty. David Yoder, but he didn’t have the answer.
- On the record
- August 10, 2005
- Lawrence datebook
- August 10, 2005
- Long course awaits PGA at Baltusrol
- Drama at end? Final two holes - including mammoth No. 17 - only par 5s
- August 10, 2005
- Chad Campbell stood next to his ball in the middle of the 17th fairway at Baltusrol when a man behind the ropes called out, “Go for the green.”
- LHS football checkout
- August 10, 2005
- Lawrence High’s football checkout will be at 3 p.m. Thursday in the LHS East gym. Preseason drills will begin Monday morning. For information, call Dirk Wedd at 832-5050.
- Lawrence bowler 9th
- August 10, 2005
- Lawrence’s Robert Glass was in ninth place Tuesday after the first round of the Senior PBA Lake County Open at Olympia Lanes. Glass had an eight-game pinfall total of 1,732.
- Commentary: Morris wants no part of tainted Hall
- Pitcher deluxe won’t accept admission to shrine if steroid-users are permitted entrance
- August 10, 2005
- Make no mistake, Jack Morris wants to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He has worked hard in recent years to change Hall voters’ perception of him.
- Nextel Cup champ switches teams
- Busch moves from Roush Racing to Penske South
- August 10, 2005
- Reigning Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch is changing teams, moving from Roush Racing to Penske Racing South. The only question is when.
- Sampson follows footsteps of other overlooked Chiefs
- Lineman was missed by experts’ spotlight
- August 10, 2005
- In the modern, high-tech world of scouting new players, the Kansas City Chiefs found offensive tackle Kevin Sampson the old-fashioned way - by word of mouth.
- Lions seek return to glory
- Firebirds hope experience pays after last year’s strong finish
- August 10, 2005
- Dirk Wedd knows a 5-6 football season at tradition-rich Lawrence High is unacceptable.
- Oklahoma prep guard planning KU visit
- August 10, 2005
- Kansas University appears to have a candidate in mind to replace shooting guard Dwight Lewis in the recruiting class of 2006.
- Let’s sustain education gains
- August 10, 2005
- The nation was treated to good news in mid-2005 when the latest test results were released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the “nation’s report card.” In a test given regularly by this federal agency since the early 1970s, 9-year-old students earned the highest scores ever in both reading and mathematics. In this age group, higher scores were recorded across the board by boys and girls, blacks, whites and Hispanics. At the same time, achievement gaps among different racial groups shrank significantly.
- GOP seeks to be inclusive
- August 10, 2005
- Forty years ago Saturday, in a nationally televised ceremony, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act. While the immediate effect of the act was the registration of a quarter-million black voters, more impressive is its enduring legacy: Today there are more than 16 million black registered voters, 43 black members of Congress and thousands of minorities elected to state and local legislative offices throughout the country. Few pieces of legislation in U.S. history have had such a lasting and positive impact on our civic culture.
- Disputed land
- August 10, 2005
- To the editor: I find it ironic that Mr. Lauppe writes about the wetlands.
- Respect for law
- August 10, 2005
- To the editor: While the investigation into the identification of Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative has not been completed, one of the few things people have agreed upon is the seriousness of the issue.
- Real patriots
- August 10, 2005
- To the editor: The rich are getting richer, the working poor can no longer feed their children or keep a roof over their heads, and the middle class is disappearing.
- Back on track
- The renewed financial health of Douglas County’s oldest home health agency is wonderful news.
- August 10, 2005
- It’s great to hear that the Douglas County Visiting Nurses Assn. is back on firm financial ground.
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