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Wednesday, April 20, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
City teachers to get pay raise
By Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
Voters yesterday narrowly passed a Lawrence public school referendum that will allow the school district to raise salaries and hire more staff.
The referendum, which was approved 3,636 to 3,240, will increase property taxes by an average of eight mills every year. A mill is a dollar of tax paid for every $1,000 of the assessed value of a home. According to the calculations of supporters of the referendum, if a resident owned a $50,000 home, his property taxes would increase $32 this year.
The increased tax revenue would allow public schools to
allow public school $^{2}$ students $^{3}$ certified and classi-
$^{4}$ incumbent employees' salaries by 7.7 percent next year and 7.2 percent the following year;
- hire eight new teachers, eight elementary librarians and eight elementary counselors; and
- hire four school nurses
The referendum proposals will be put into effect over two years. The
schools will hire more librarians and nurses next school year and counselors during the next two years.
ors during the Tom Christie, chairman of the Committee for Awareness in Public Education, which promoted the referendum, said the referendum's passage was vital to meeting the need for more staff caused by an enrollment increase of 200 students a year.
Christie said he was not surprised by the election results because several groups in the community, including the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the Parent Teacher Association, had supported the referendum.
Referendum. The referendum's passage will provide an additional $290 for the district to spend on each student over two years. The district now spends an average of $2,948 on each student.
"Lawrence is quite a bit below other schools in the state in cost per student," Christie said. "The increase in the referendum will bring us a little closer to those schools."
Christie said that the group's goal wasn't necessarily to bring Lawrence up to other schools in the state. Rather, it wanted to meet real needs within the district.
"If we can educate students below the median, that's not necessarily bad," he said. "The referendum was needed as a prevention step to alleviate some things that could have become problems."
Katharine Weickert, communications coordinator for Lawrence Public Schools, said many people had overemphasized the rise in salaries the referendum would bring.
She said the referendum's most important effect would be the staff additions and the increase in programs offered by the schools.
"There are several things we're going to be able to provide because of the referendum," she said. "We will be able to have nurses at the junior high level coming into classrooms and teaching students about issues like AIDS and sexual abuse."
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Shotgun blast wounds KU student
By a Kansan reporter
A KU freshman remained in fair condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center after he was accidentally shot in the leg Thursday at Clinton Lake.
Jeff Kavich, Omaha, Neb., freshman, was skeet-shooting with five friends when a shotgun held by Steve Palmero. Leawood freshman, accidently went off.
dently went on.
Palermo said yesterday that he didn't remember exactly how it happened.
Kavich's main artery and vein of his right thigh were severed.
"It just went off," Palermo said.
"It was crazy after that."
Kavich was in surgery for about five hours. Thursday night, Kavich
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Kavich is expected to be released Saturday and will return to Omaha to finish recovering. He will have to remain hospitalized for about two weeks.
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