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Campaign financing analyzed
Group proposes tax increase to de-emphasize financing by PACs
By Carol Krekele
State taxpayers may have to watch their wallets when another election year comes around.
Kansan staff writer
Earlier this month, the Kansas Select Commission on Ethical Conduct recommended that the Legislature study public financing of state political campaigns as a way to reduce the high costs of trying to get elected for a state office.
Public financing would require Kansas taxpayers to pay a certain amount in taxes each year to finance state
Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said the cost of partially financing state representative races with public support is $126 million.
"I don't think about 27 cents per person every other year is too burdensome." he said.
Sobach said he preferred political action committees as a means to finance campaigns because they were the only institutions that could support him.
"The problem with leaving contributions up to individuals is that you rely on the wealthy to give money," he said. "If you eliminate PACs, you eliminate all the little people from the process."
Allan Cigler, professor of political science, said he would prefer total public financing of state elections.
"I would like to see private financing eliminated," he said. "In theory, public financing makes sense. In practicality, we haven't come up with a way to make it work."
Cigler said the two problems that kept public campaign financing from being implemented were that it decreased the amount of money candidates had available to signups and it strengthened the incumbent's advantage.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said she thought relying on public financing was not practical because special interest groups would find a way around a state law to contribute to politicians.
Mark Lumpe, Lawrence resident, said he would opt for higher taxes so that campaigns could be financed by the state.
"I think generally the public isn't ready for it at all," she said. "It makes me wonder if we would really be chased out."
Lumpe said he thought state financing would be a fair way to finance campaigns because it would provide better coverage.
Project helps schools retain students
Kansan staff writer
By Courtney Eblen
Korean staff writer
A KU research program is working to keep Kansas City, Kan., students from dropping out of high school by motivating them to do well in classes and, thus, stay out of unemployment lines later.
Juniper Garden's Children's Project, based in northeast Kansas City, Kan., has been researching community schools for 25 years.
The project is part of the KU's Schiebfellbach Institute for Life Span Studies. It recently received four large grants from the U.S. Department of Education to continue its research.
Charles Greenwood, a project director, said the project's goal was to evaluate the effectiveness of different methods of teaching.
Greenwood said that many teaching methods did not work because of the class structure. Students can tire quickly of a curriculum they find boring and begin staring out of classroom windows or developing disciplinary problems to break the monotony of school.
Much of Juniper Garden's research focuses on how poverty affects the education of children. Several years ago the project began
"The main mission is to do research that helps schools, the community and parents do a better job teaching," he said.
testing first-grade students in Kansas City, Kans., schools. The study showed a marked difference between the performance levels of children who grew up in a balanced environment and those with lower levels of disadvantaged children.
"We really don't know why, but
we've found that it a child is minority
and poor, it's very likely that he's
a widow and two or two delayed."
Greenwood said.
The children participating in the first poverty-level study ace in middle school, Greenwood said. Through Juniper programs, they have begun to bridge the educational gap and more privileged peers and themselves.
About 2,000 Kansas City, Kan, and Shawnee Mission School District children are participating in the program, Greenwood said.
"For every kid that doesn't make it through high school, millions of dollars are lost that are not contributed back into society." he said.
One Juniper program that has proved successful — and popular with the students — is the peer tutoring system, Greenwood said. Under the supervision of a teacher, students pair off and help each other work with flash cards and vocabulary.
Debra Kamps, another project director, said classroom interaction was the key to keeping students
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We need to set up more opportunities for the kids to respond and keep them involved.
— Debra Kamps a project director
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motivated.
"We need to set up more opportunities for the kids to respond and keep them involved," she said.
One way to keep students' short attention spans focused is to use focus on each topic briefly. Kamps said. By focusing on one topic a little at a time and later repeating it, students are less likely to become bored.
Kamps is the director of the autism project. She said autism was a lifelong developmental disability that occurred in about 15 of every 10,000 people. Autism often hampers social skills.
The project will study the effectiveness of placing autistic students in regular classrooms and exposing them to how other children interact with each other. Kamps said. The idea is to motivate the autistic child to emulate the behavior of other children in the classroom.
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