University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 4, 1989
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Admissions amendment rejected by Senate Education Committee
by Thom Clark Kansan staff writer
An amendment altering the Board of Regents bill for qualified admissions died in the Senate Education department last week, an author of the proposal.
State Rep. Bob Vancumr, R-Overland Park, said that although no vote was taken, the consensus of the committee was against the amendment.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said the bill without the amendment was now in the Education Committee of the Senate but was not scheduled to reach the Senate floor this session.
The amendment would have limited qualified admissions to the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University, and would have eliminated a proposal that would require students to take two years of foreign language in high school.
Vancrum said the amendment
failed because of reluctance to change the state procedure.
"They think it should remain a local matter whether school districts should offer a college curriculum," Vancurm said.
Qualified admissions would require a college preparatory curriculum for high school students seeking admission to a state university. The Regents recommended a college preparatory program for the state, which includes units of math, three units of social science, three units of natural science, four units of English and two units of foreign language.
Stanley Kolipik, executive director of the Board of Regents, said he was disappointed that the proposal did not activate a more favorable response.
"The longer we delay improving the standard of our state admissions, the longer we delay improving the standard of student attribution of students." Koobklaid.
Vancrum said an interim study or a special joint committee on education of both houses could possibly issue the issue during the summer.
He said the next proposal would most likely exclude the foreign language requirement but would not allow transfers to specific Regents schools.
Koplik said it would take a while to get qualified admissions accepted by the state.
He also said that the Legislative Educational Planning Committee would be looking into the issue during the summer.
"We will begin with something similar to that prepared in the House." Vancrum said.
"I am a realist in that discussion could possibly take several years before it reaches a favorable vote." Koplik said. "I am convinced, how can we overcome the better off if we raised the high bar in terms of high school preparation."
Bill addresses education, roads
TOPEKA — The House Transportation Committee yesterday began consideration of a bill that would tie motor fuel and sales taxes to educa-
by Alan Morgan
Kansan staff writer
The bill would use the taxes to pay for a proposed highway program and for elementary and secondary education there was no formal opposition to the bill.
The Senate passed the measure last week.
Mary Turkington, executive director of the Kansas Motor Carriers Association, said the bill was needed to address the financing needs of education and the state's deteriorating highway system.
local school districts, Senate bill 380 also returns almost all of the 1/4 percent sales tax dollars for highway purposes to local city and county units," Turkington said. "I know the units" like this funding proposal."
According to the bill, local units of government would continue to share 40.5 percent of fuel-tax dollars. They also would receive 75 percent of the proposed $ \frac{1}{4} $ percent of sales tax dollars.
The state highway fund would keep all additional motor-fuel tax revenues derived from an increase proposed in another House bill.
No date has been set for discussion of the measure.
Turkington said the bill would return nearly all of the sales tax
increases to local units of government.
"All of us, including the business community, keep saying that education is so very important," Turkun-ton said. "I know all of us believe that education is essential to our ability to provide funding, other than present general fund revenues."
Cruig Grant, a lobbyist for the Kansas National Education Association, said the organization would benefit from the increased financing was guaranteed
Grant said the bill would help stabilize school financing during the next few years.
Legislators did not discuss the bill after the hearing, but they will do so at a date set by the committee chairman.
RAPE TRIAL TEST: A Lawrence man who was charged March 19 with the rape of a KU student was bound over for trial yesterday by District Judge James Paddock, in a preliminary hearing.
Local Briefs
the rape felony charge. The jury trial is set for April 26.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to
Only one witness was called to the stand at the hearing.
The 21-year-old KU student testified that the man, the friend of a friend, entered the empty apartment
and assaulted her shortly after she went to bed. She had been staying at her friend's apartment until her own apartment was ready, she said.
The man is being held in the Douglas County Jail in lieu of a $25,000 bond.
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