Lawrence Journal-World 06-29-2016

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WEDNESDAY • JUNE 29 • 2016

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Teachers, district agree on pay raise

Pictured are the winning entries of the 2016 LEGO Contest at The Toy Store. All entries are placed in the front window of the store, 936 Massachusetts St. Winners’ last names were not provided.

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Union, administrators wrap up negotiations By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

Educators districtwide can expect to see a raise in pay next school year as a result of teacher contract negotiations for the Lawrence school district, which concluded Tuesday. The agreement reached Tuesday by negotiators for the district and its teachers union includes a 1.5 percent salary increase for all teachers. Though the pay in-

Winner, Category 6-10 Creator: Violet, age 8 Title: “Petting Zoo”

crease was less than half of what the Lawrence teachers union originally proposed, union leaders weren’t displeased with the outcome. “Considering the way that the state is doing things for schools these days, that’s about as good as can be expected,” David Reber, lead negotiator for the Lawrence Education Association, said following the meeting. Please see TEACHERS, page 2A

Arts Center names new CEO

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By Joanna Hlavacek Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

Winner, Category 0-5 Creator: Tyson, age 5 Title: “Captain Tyson’s Jolly Jackaby”

Winner, Category 16+ Creator: Randy, age 43 Title: “Calvin and Hobbes”

A Lawrence native and Kansas University alumna with experience in financial management and the arts has been named the next CEO of the Lawrence Arts Center. Kimberly Williams returns to her Williams hometown of Lawrence from Chicago, where she most recently served as managing director of the Solar Fuels Institute, a nonprofit science research institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Her hiring takes effect Sept. 12. Williams replaces current Lawrence Arts Center CEO Susan Tate, who has

Winner, Category 11-15 Creator: Beck Title: “Castle Battle”

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Kan. Supreme Court signs off on school funding equity fix By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

Topeka — The Kansas Supreme Court said Tuesday that it is satisfied with the Legislature’s action last week addressing school funding equity, and

it will not issue any other remedial orders such as closing public schools. “In short, the legislature has currently satisfied the court’s orders in Gannon I, Gannon II and Gannon III regarding equity. Therefore, no judicial remedy

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nouncement. “The Legislature has satisfied the Constitution’s requirement for equitable school funding, and Kansas public schools will remain open and operating.” Alan Rupe, an attorney for the plaintiff school dis-

tricts in the case, said those districts “are extremely pleased that schools will be opening in the fall and that funding will be distributed in a manner that comports with the Kansas Constitution’s equity requirement.”

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is necessary at this time,” Chief Justice Lawton Nuss wrote in a two-page order, referring to the court’s first three decisions in the case Gannon v. Kansas. “It’s official,” Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said after the an-

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Closing the book

Previously, the court had said that the method of distributing two kinds of aid among school districts failed to meet constitutional standards because some low-wealth districts Please see FUNDING, page 2A

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Citing a decline in textbook sales, Jayhawk Bookstore “at the top of the hill” is going out of business. Page 3A

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