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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, July 16, 1986
Candidate upholds role of education
By Evan Walter
Staff writer
State Writer
Education plays an important role in the economic development for the state, Larry Jones, Republican candidate for Kansas governor, said yesterday.
Jones spoke to about 25 people in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
"Immigrants from every corner of the state share something that's very important to me. That is quality education," Jones said.
"Education, I believe, is vital to economic development with its process of providing jobs and initiatives for investment."
A companionship between the universities and the business community, which can create new jobs and generate new ideas for the market, is necessary for economic prosperity, he said.
Jones said support for the arts was also important. In the past only a little money has been spent on the arts, but there have still been positive
results, he said.
Jones said he would like to increase the amount spent on the arts.
"Let's never forget the importance of quality education to quality life," he said.
Jones said the state budget had to be spent wisely, and employees needed motivation.
"The next two budget sessions will be the most critical in Kansas history," Jones said. "Unless we improve the quality of our education, we are in trouble, but we're going to be in deeper trouble competing with other states."
In difficult economic times, many people believe taxes need to be raised. Jones said taxes can be increased if that it wouldn't help economic growth.
"You can't grow by raising the costs of living;" he said.
Jones was chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents in 1985, chairman of the executive committee of the Coleman Company in 1986 and president of the company from 1971 to 1985.
He was a professor of business and a director of finance at Wichita State University. He received his master's degree and doctorate, both in business administration, from Harvard School of Business.
KU needs to be the state's number one priority as an education resource. Jones said.
Sen. Paul "Bud" Burke, Senate majority leader, is running for lieutenant governor on the same ticket as Jones. Burke has been a member of the Kansas House and a member of the Kansas House of Representatives for two years.
"I probably have a more challenging role for the University of Kansas than most alumni," Jones said. "Last fall, I had the privilege to argue about the treatment of the university's office to the KU Med Center."
He told members of Gov. John Carlin's cabinet that the amount of
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She said she was fortunate because other child-care centers had to search for an insurance company that would write them a policy.
coverage.
Anne Leaf, office manager at Charlton Manley insurance agency, 910 Massachusetts St., said that it was unfair to insure companies that have not been cared even though not all day-care centers had child-abuse problems.
"When you have $100,000 lawsuits like the ones occurring in California and Florida and even Kansas City, the business is considered a high
"But if it's a system we have to live with," Leaf said.
Alita York Cooper, member of the Kansas Association for the Education of Young Children, blamed the failure of insurance actions by insurance companies.
"There are so few cases, and they've been blown out of proportion." Cooper said.
Joan Reber, director of the Hilltop Child Development Center, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd., also said the news media had a way of making the child-abuse situation bigger than it was for child-care centers.
Most child abuse occurs at home or in the child's neighborhood by relatives or strangers," she said.
relatives of strangers, the case
Reber said that the centers
themselves were teaching the
children to be aware of what molestation was, ways to avoid such incidents and to tell someone if something did happen.
Although public awareness had a tendency to bring out more cases, Rathert said, media had little effect on insurance-rate decisions.
Rathert said he appreciated the media for bringing the abuse cases out in the open so that people would be aware of the responsibilities they face when putting their children in another person's care.
"You need to consider how much money is presently being paid out and project how much you may need in 10 years if the grown children decide to make claims against the center," he said.
He said many things were considered in deciding premium rates for child care. For instance, the statute of limitations does not expire until the child is 18 years old. This allows persons who were abused as children to file lawsuits until they are 18.
Leaf, however, thought the insurance problems with child-care centers ended eventually, after the child-abuse scare calmed down.
capital generated from the University of Kansas Medical Center that was reinvested into the center should be increased to further the Center's activities and production. Carlin was against doing this.
Directors of child-care centers in Kansas have been able to cope with the higher rates by tightening their budgets. Several have made slight increases in day-to-day rates for child care.
Leta Thomas had trouble with child-care premiums.
"We still must accept the philosophy that wealthier communities must pay in part for the less-wealthy communities for quality education." Jones said.
"There was no 99-day notice and no reason given, just a letter saying our policy was canceled." Thomas said.
When another insurance company was found, she said, her staff lost its cost-of-living raise so she could cover the doubled-premium rate.
But Jones said he didn't believe in state lids on taxes for education, which would limit the amount a community would collect for its education. If a community wants to raise taxes to increase the quality of its education, it should be able to, he said.
Thomas also had to sign a waiver protecting the company from any sexual-abuse claims filed against it.
Chesky said that although many insurance companies would not write child-care policies, some insurance companies would not provide any coverage for child molestation.
Chesky said the exclusion action would put pressure on child-care centers to screen out unfit workers. But that does not mean insurance companies will consider child-care centers less of a risk.
This would make the child-care center responsible for any lawsuits from child molestation, not the insurance company.
"I doubt the liability-insurance rates will ever go back down. The whole liability market is absolutely evaporating." Chesky said.
"I'd be the last person to fault the attorney, but people are getting litigation-happy," he said.
"It used to be that when someone fell on a snow-covered sidewalk, you'd help them up, brush them off and all would be forgotten.
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