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Schools given funds for Wi-Fi hot spots

Priest suspended; FBI investigation underway Accused of visiting websites ‘depicting minors’

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

A Catholic priest in Baldwin City has been suspended and the FBI is investigating his conduct after he was reported to have visited inappropriate websites,

the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas said in a news release Monday. Friday morning the Archdiocese received a report — it did not say from where — that

the priest, Chris Rossman, 44, had visited “inappropriate websites” that were “depicting minors,” the release said. It did not elaborate on what was inappropriate about

the sites. Rossman serves at both Baldwin City’s Annunciation Church and the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Lapeer, the

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city, and this is a lot of moving parts and moving bodies.” Brown-Beamon said the event is a “full-service operation.” In addition to planning logistics for the track meet itself, restaurant, hotel,

In Lawrence, some 400 secondary school students go without internet access at home, according to a survey conducted last spring by the Lawrence school district. A $39,000 gift from the Lawrence Schools Foundation, presented to district officials at Monday’s school board meeting, will significantly reduce that number, providing Lawrence middle and high schools with 200 Kajeet hot spot devices. The contribution, said Jerri Kemble, assistant superintendent of technology and innovation, marks an important step in the progress of the district’s digital equity goals, allowing students who otherwise would be left without reliable Wi-Fi after school hours to access digital textbooks and relevant educational information from home. It also creates a ripple effect that extends beyond the individual student, Kemble said. “I think we’ve got to think about the other piece when kids are connected, and that’s the family and how they become connected to the school,” she said of having at-home internet access. “It really engages them on what’s going on in the schools (and) allows families to see grades. It also allows families to access health benefits, maybe even a job, and other things. “So when we put internet in the home, we’re not only affecting one student — we’re affecting an entire family.” As of the 2015-2016 school year, more than 90 percent of students districtwide — or about 10,000 students — are enrolled in one or more classes that rely on a digital textbook. The district already has 120 hot spot devices available in its secondary schools, beginning with a pilot program last year at Lawrence

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REPRESENTATIVES FROM USA TRACK & FIELD VISITED LAWRENCE MONDAY in an effort to further plan for the USA Track & Field Junior Olympic Championships in July. The event is expected to attract about 40,000 people to Lawrence.

Hundreds of hotel rooms booked as Junior Olympics plans move forward By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

Ten months before runners take their marks, hundreds of hotel rooms in Lawrence have already been booked in anticipation of the USA Track & Field Junior Olympic Championships. With

about 40,000 people due to converge on the city for the event, competitors aren’t the only ones planning ahead. USA Track & Field staff are visiting Lawrence Monday and today, where they will be reviewing the site plan for the weeklong event, which will be

held at Rock Chalk Park in July. The Junior Olympics are expected to draw about 9,500 athletes and 33,000 family members and spectators to Lawrence. USA Track & Field leaders are here to make sure the city will be ready to host the

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track meet and to accommodate the crowds elsewhere in the city. “It starts from the time we get to Kansas to the time we leave; it’s a never-ending story,” said Robin BrownBeamon, USA Track & Field’s director of outreach. “… It’s a lot of people. You’re a small

Kansas Supreme Court to review teacher due process rights By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

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Topeka — The Kansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case that challenges a 2014 law repealing the right of veteran teachers to a due process hearing before they could be

summarily fired. The Kansas National Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, argues among other things that lawmakers violated a provision of the Kansas Constitution in adopting the law by passing a bill that contained multiple subjects.

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