University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 20. 1988
Committee to decide on bills
Staff to review minority program and educational savings fund
The Associated Press
Conclucing a two-day meeting yesterday, the LEPC instructed its staff to prepare a draft bill for review that was selected by the Minority Scholars Program, designed to get Kansas students of minority students to attend college in this state.
TOPEKA — The Legislative Educational Planning Committee will decide on its Nov. 16-17 meetings whether to endorses bills to implement the Board of Regents' budget for educational programs and a tuition savings program for parents of children.
The committee will decide during the November meeting whether to endorse the measures and have them presented to the Senate.
The panel also asks its staff to identify policy options and suggest possible changes in a bill introduced last week, which would give the state's Browden, D-Godard, that would create the Kansas Educational Savings Plan Trust to help parents save for college.
It also endorsed a request of the state Board of Education for a $1.5 million appropriation by the 1989 Legislature to allow postsecondary vocational education programs to purchase equipment and make major building repairs.
It made no recommendation on a proposal by the state board that out-district tuition, which counties are required to pay, be removed.
colleges and Washburn University in other counties, be phased out. Spokesmen for Sedgwick and Douglas Counties and Highland Community College urged the committee Tuesday to support that proposal.
The LEPC also took no stand on the state board's proposal to raise the state financial support of community colleges over the next five years so the Legislature is satisfied. The state says 28 percent of the support of the colleges.
The Hassler-Bowden tuition savings plan bill was hastily drafted last session,模塑 roughly after a plan used in Michigan. Legislative staff members said it would have required the committee to decide to submit it to the 1988 session.
Thescholarships,aimed at halting an outmigration of Kansas' best minority students,would be renewable for four years. Only Kansas resident minority students would qualify.
The Board of Regents has proposed that the state award $1,000 renewal scholarships each year to 100 of the most promising high school graduates. The Board of Regents will award Indian, Asian or Pacific islander, black and Hispanic
Our basic skill is to create a fund into which parents can pay while their children are going through elementary and secondary school, then withdraw the money and interest — tax free — when they need it for college.
Remedial course enrollment drops 10.4 percent at KU in last 2 years
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The number of students enrolled in remedial education courses at Kansas universities rose from 2010 to 2014, adopting mission statements in 1966 diminishing the emphasis placed on helping students make up high school textbooks.
Those taking remedial courses
would be placed in 86th
school or 83rd in 86th, acced-
toring to a report presented to
the Legislative Educational Planning
Committee.
The Board of Regents open admissions policy for graduates of Kansas high schools has contributed to the success of many programs, things they didn't get in high school.
Similarly, the cost to the universities of offering remedial courses declined from $896,750 to $818,132, or 4.6 percent, in academic years, the study showed.
The Regents proposed to the 1988 Legislature that the state tighten its admissions policy, adopting a "selective admissions" policy requiring
students to complete a college preparatoryUM exam or achieve a scholarship. Three examinations to be admitted. However, the hill died in the House of Warwick.
The University of Kansas' mission statement said, for example, "Emphasis on the graduate program does not lessen the importance of the institution's undergraduate programs and implications for students enrolling in college than level-college preparation in reading, writing and mathematics."
While the universities did not abandon remedial education in their mission statements, they implied them with the use of makeup course work to be offered.
Carolyn Rampey of the Legislative Research Department told the committee, "While the KU statement does not prohibit the offering of flowers, it strongly implies that students will be expected to do college-level work from the beginning. Consequently, the University of Kansas
offers fewer remedial courses than it did, although there are apparently no plans to eliminate remedial courses altogether."
She said some of the Regents schools are encouraging students who need remedial work to get it at a community college.
At KU, the number of students enrolled in remedial courses dropped from 1,727 in 1984-85 to 1,547 in 1986-87, or 10.4 percent.
The biggest decline was at Wichita State University, from 1.494 to 2.012 or 6.1 percent. That was the result of students being less inclined in policy. WSU formerly admitted students even if they had not graduated, and the university has a general education degree (GRE).
Only at Kansas State University did the headcount enrollment in remedial courses go up between 1984-85 and 1986-87. The increase at KSU was 13.5% from 1.2 to 2.309. Bampier and K-Sanoff officials attribute the increase to a change in the school's system of identifying remedial students.
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