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Tuesday, November 21, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Officials Back School Funding Plan
By ANN McFERREN
Kansan Staff Writer
A new proposal for the financing of Kansas public schools presented to a delegate assembly of the Kansas Association of School Boards last weekend has received support from two local organizations representing Unified School District 497.
Karl Knox, Lawrence school superintendent, and Julie Hack, member of the District 497 Board of Education, were among almost 300 Kansas school teachers who attended the Kansas Legislative Committee on School Finance Friday and Saturday in Wichita.
Knox said he and Hack were basically in favor of the proposal, which attempts to equalize state funding per student. He said, "This is not a bad flaw; it was one flaw in the recommendations."
The grade level of the student, the total number of students per district, the size of the school district and the density of the pupil population are to be considered in the process called weighting the formula,<sup>1</sup> which uses a proportional fund shares for each student.
HACK SAID THAT consideration of the size of the school district and the density of
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BONN-Chancellor Willy Brandt's triumphant Social Democrats prepared Monday for hard bargaining with their junior partners in the ruling coalition as the opposition Christian Democrats took stock of their crushing election defeat. Chief government spokesman Conrad Abbers announced that Brandt would launch Free Democratic Coalition School this week to bring a new government as soon as possible. Brandt and Scheel have agreed on continuing the East-West reconciliation policies.
Misspent Funds
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Office of Education disclosed Monday it had asked eight more states to repay a total of $10.2 million in allegedly mis spent funds intended for the compensatory education of poor children.
Federal officials disclosed also that $420,412 had been collected from six states during the last 3½ years for misspending under the massive Title 1 program in the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
The latest states added to the list and repayments requested are: Alabama, $89,546; Arkansas, $615,548; Kentucky, $296,378; Mississippi, $3 million; New Mexico, $5,429; South Carolina, $2.8 million; Tennessee, $3.2 million and Texas, $30,155.
the pupil population would be duplicate considerations.
Knox and Hack recommended to the committee that only one of these factors be taken into consideration. Hack said the result was good. The suggestion, although no action was taken,
When deciding the share of finances to go to college, students must be recognized for certain types of students. Hack said. Students who need special education need the funds for two average classes.
At the meeting the state legislature approved a budget committee that the extra funds needed to education, education student and vocational education funds not be included in the considerations,
In a letter the legislature recommended instead that special and vocational education funds be appropriated separately, she said.
"BUDGET LIMITATIONS must be made in financing schools," said Knox. "However," he said, "there must be flexibility in the limitations."
Hack said it cost more to finance schools in large urban areas, but, on the other hand, it also was expensive to finance rural schools. In exchange for expenses must be taken into account.
Hack said that to cope with these budget variations the committee recommended that the delegates decide upon the share to be allotted for each student.
Each school district would determine its own expenses for special and vocational classes.
According to Knox, the delegation emphasized more control of funds on the local level in order to equalize the educational resources between schools and those that do not have a high income.
according to Hack. Finally, the state would
widen the difference between the two
questions, she said.
KNOX SAID THE recommendations by the committee would constitute a significant change in the local contribution rate.
Previously on the local level, school district property taxes, property taxes, said Knox. Income taxes would be used as a basis along with the property tax in the committee's proposal.
Knox said the distribution of the amount
of income and property tax would be left to the state legislature.
A new proposal for financing Kansas schools was necessary because of a Johnson County District Court ruling that declared the current school financing method unconstitutional because of inequalities in funding. The proposal will be presented to the 1973 session of the Kansas Legislature. Other proposals made at the assembly
Authority of the local school boards to decide what areas of special education are needed.
—Traffic control in school zones to be the responsibility of the city rather than the school district.
Possibility of statewide achievement testing programs.
Gay Liberation Front Confident of Victory
Members of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front said Monday night they were confident that the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) will accept a petition to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The case was presented to the court Nov. 16 in Denver.
"If GLF wins the case it will set the most important precedent to this day for gay
Hall Contract Terms To Be Recommended
The Contract Coordinating Committee voted in a meeting Monday to split into two groups to study the specific terms in the contract, which were issued by Kansas residence hall contracts.
John Beisner, Salina sophomore and committee member, volunteered to get two student committee members to work on each of the four areas in the contracts: vacating-cancellation, security and guests, managing faculty, and currency, and regulations and violations.
The hall contract terms are the last part of the residence hall contract recommendations to be worked on by the committee. Contract options were completed last week.
Each student member will work on recommendations over Thanksgiving break and report his proposals at the next committee meeting Nov. 27.
The committee also accepted an alternate proposal for next year's occupancy options for GSP-Corbin Hall. The proposal was submitted by several residents of those combined balls as an alternative to the committee's recommendations.
Once the committee has formalized its recommendations for the contract terms, the committee will submit them to the Administrative Housing Board for approval. Members hope they can finish preparing the terms in the next few weeks.
The committee had already formulated recommendations to open GSP-Corbin Hall to sophomore and freshman men and women and to move the Pearson humanities program there. Among other things, the GSP-Corbin alternative proposal suggests that a classroom be offered only and that the plan to have the Pearson program there be rejected.
The Contract Committee decided to study the alternative proposal before offering their comprehensive recommendations to the housing board.
The committee spent most of the two hour meeting discussing ideas for hall and stairways.
Vote on Bingo
TOPEKA-Gov. Robert Docking said Monday he would ask the 1973 legislature to give Kansans the right to vote on legalizing bingo through a constitutional amendment. Atty. Gen. Vern Miller said he favored the constitutional amendments to the neon.
Some of the topics discussed were what kinds of pets should be allowed, how long guests could stay for one period of time, how to control hall noise levels and whether students should be allowed to go barefoot in the hall cafeterias.
Miller had said previously he thought very strongly that a constitutional amendment was the only way bingo could be legalized in Kansas.
organizations” said the legal adviser for GLF, who asked not to be identified.
Computer Patent
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court Monday ruled out patents for computer programming known as "software." The 60 decision, announced by Justice William O. Douglas, could have a broad impact on the industry. "One may not patent an idea," Douglas said as the court ruled for the government and against two employees of Google. The ruling decision involved a procedure for programming a general purpose digital computer which is essentially a series of mathematical calculations or mental steps.
WASHINGTON—The Cuban government has notified the United States that it would try three hijackers who forced a Southern Airways jet with 31 passengers aboard to land in Cuba Nov. 12. In reporting this on Monday, State Department press officer Charles W. Bray also said the Cuban government has responded to U.S. invitation to engage in discussions which might lead to an agreement on how to handle hijackers.
Hijack Trial
Czech Prof Stresses Need for Revolution
Christians should recognize revolution as a necessity in an oppressive society and use it as one means of change, Milan Opcenokov, professor of theology at Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and a representative of several Christian organization organizations, said at a special luncheon meeting of the faculty forum Monday.
He attributed the third world's susceptibility to revolution to the living and health conditions in the countries, and read statistics which he said showed the percentages of people oppressed by these problems.
Opocenksy was in Lawrence for the last
season. He came to America before
recurring to Georgetown学。
"We cannot preach nonviolence as a Christian solution," he said. "In many instances, the church and politics are closely linked, and therefore, some social questions can only be dealt with by the church."
He said that revolution was not possible in a highly technological and advanced society, but in a true table to revolution were the third world countries, such as many South American countries.
“However, most coup d'etat that occur in these countries are not revolutions, because living and health conditions do not appreciate under a new ruler,” he said.
Opoceneky, who has addressed many international theological conventions since
he obtained his degree in theology in Prague in 1954, said that revolutions in the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic churches simultaneously with social revolutions.
The legal adviser said that GLF would probably win the case because of a precedent established in a 1971 Supreme Court case. In the 1971 case, James V. Healy, Students for Democratic Society (SDS) was not recognized by the University of Connecticut. The university maintained that the local chapter of SDS could have refused recognition organization. The Supreme Court ruled that he refused recognition because of presumptions held by an administration on what it thought a groom might be doing.
He said that in both cases the church had been linked with social conditions that led to
"Revolution is not the end of change," he said. It is usually just the beginning of a long-term process. Revolution is something that attempts to look after the masses."
revolution, the result being an updating of the church and a change in social condition.
Milan Opocensky
Downtown Lawrence
If this case is used as a guideline by the appeals court, the adviser said, then it will destroy the administration's argument that the use of GLEF is based on "sexual proclivities."
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According to the GLF legal adviser, if the appeals court does not rule on the case in 30 days, Jack Klinknett and William Kunstler, the attorneys for GLF, will ask the Supreme Court to demand that the appeals court rule on the case.
Reginald Brown, Kansas City, Kan,
sophomore and coordinator of GLF, said he thought the case would not have to go to the Supreme Court.
"We are already planning a victory dance and celebration." Brown said.
Franchises Suggested For Union
A proposal to lease space in the Kansas Union to franchised food chains was presented Friday at a meeting of the merchandising policies and practices committee of the University of Kansas Memorial Union Corporation.
Richard Mackenzie, second-year law student from Hutchinson and a member of the
The meeting was called to acquaint committee members with aspects of Union operations that need attention, according to Thomas Beiecker, associate professor of speech and drama and chairman of the committee.
"I don't know if it's feasible, but I'd like to rent or give franchises to different organizations like Mr. Steenbrug's Donald's Tae Griess Group." The Tae Griess group "x" of the union, "The Union," Mackenzie x.
The advantages of the plan, he said, would be cheaper food that students liked.
Mackenzie said that several students had complained to him about food service in the Union.
The group reached a general consensus that something needed to be done about food waste.
A lot of little things are wrong with the service, Madkenzie said.
"We were trying to assess exactly what the problems are," he said, "and then get them fixed."
"When you add them all, up it comes to be an inefficient operation," he said.
Persons who attended SUA's popular film series last Friday and Saturday nights saw the movie, "Little Feet and Big Halsey," on Thursday, with foot-glass-beded cinemascos's green
SUA to Show Film Series On Glass-Beaded Screen
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"The purpose simply was to provide a
The screen was installed in the early morning hours last week. The operation began with a crane, dollys and a scaffold and fluffed up the screen through a window and into place.
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