' University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 10, 1990
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Trafficwav debate continues
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
After two months of negotiations, city and county commissioners have yet to agree on the wording of a ballot being issued in the South Lawrence Trafficway.
The Lawrence City Commission last night heard opinions about the issue of combining the construction of the city's Eastern Parkway with Douglas County's South Lawrenceaway in an interreligious agreement.
The South Lawrence Trafficway is a proposed roadway that would link Kansas Highway 10 with the Kansas Turnpike. The Eastern Parkway would provide a direct route from K-10 to downtown Lawrence.
Don Strole, a Lawrence attorney,
asked the city to wait until after the Nov.
6 election before it entered into the
agreement
The city and the county have been negotiating to combine the two road issues to ensure there will be a development on each of the roads.
"If the bonds fail in the November election, the point will be moot." he said after the meeting. "We are
looking seriously at challenging the explanatory statement in court that the county has placed on the ballot, the judge thinks the city wants to be into this.
"We will make the Eastern Parkway our top priority on getting funds, but we will be aggressive on funding for all projects," he said. "We have good intentions to work with the city as a partner for five years on this."
Strole represented Les Bleuins Sr., who sued the county last year for the right to vote on the $4 million bond issue of the trafficway.
McKenzie was at the commission meeting to clarify the county's wording of the agreement with the city.
Although Elevens won the case, the county was allowed to keep the bond. But the Kansas Supreme Court required the county to place the issue to the voters in November. It is an advisory election, which means the county legally does not have to abide by the outcome of the election.
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said that the county had gone on record stating it would abide by the voters' decision.
"We agree with the balanced growth of the two roadways, and the
county will not proceed with the third and fourth lanes of the traffaction until the first two lanes of the parkway are funded."
Tim Miller, KU assistant professor of religion, said the county could not be trusted.
"When the trafficway started out it was planned in secret meetings." Miller said. "They have had a stonewall of legal maneuvers in elaborate efforts to get around the law. Their 'good intentions' will last only until the next election or a powerful start pushing their own needs."
City commissioner Bob Schumm did not like the wording of the agreement, saying that it didn't place a priority on the parkway.
"I still feel like it puts the road systems competing one against the other," Schumm said. "I'm not against the trafficway, but I think it was the wrong town business district if the trafficw grew before the parkway."
School of Education to limit students
The city commission decided to meet with the county commission next week to iron out the differences in the wording of the agreement.
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
Beginning with the Spring 1992 semester, the School of
Gazette limit the number of students admitted to
its elementary school.
The school also plans to limit the number of students accepted in secondary education in the social studies and English sequences, said Suzanne Collins, assistant to the dean of education.
From the pool of applicants in February 1992, 50 students will be admitted in the elementary education sequence and 20 students in each of the secondary education sequences.
"It is our responsibility to train exceptionally good students," Collins said. "But there is an overload in the classrooms, and we have a hard time getting good placements for the students in field work."
The school will maintain certain minimum standards, including requiring at least a 2.5 grade point average, but it also will limit enrollment to prescribed numbers, said Tom Erb, chairperson of curriculum and instruction.
In the 1899-90 school year, 283 students applied for
There is no shortage of elementary teachers in Kansas, Collins said, but a shortage of secondary teachers does not seem to be the main problem.
admission into the elementary and elementary-middle sequences. One hundred and eighty-eight of the 283 students were accepted. The 95 students who were not accepted did not meet the requirements for the school.
Of 75 Spring 1998 graduates in elementary education, 58 found jobs in education, said Ann Hartley, assistant director of education placement at the University Placement Center.
Forty-eight of the 58 had full-time commitments. Thirty-two of the graduates are teaching in Kansas.
"The job situation in the Kansas City area is tight," Hartley said. "We have more elementary teachers than high school."
Hartley said that shortages in the elementary education field depended on the area of the country.
"If students would be willing to go to California or Texas, they would be able to find a job because they have pockets of economic growth and need teachers." Hartley said.
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