University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 4, 1987
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State/Local
State legislators to meet in Wichita to discuss issues of 1988 session
By VIRGINIA McGRATH Staff writer
Staff writer
House Republicans and Senate Democrats will meet separately in Wichita this weekend to become familiar with some of the issues they will face in the 1988 legislative session.
Democrates will meet for several hours Sunday at Botanica, the city's botanical gardens. A fund-raiser is scheduled after the meeting. Republca will hold a Monday and part of Monday at the Hilton Hotel at Mid-Continent Airport.
Margin of Excellence probably will be discussed at both meetings, according to aides to the House speaker and the Senate minority leader. Margin of Excellence is a measure of the number of Regents to raise the budgets of Regents schools to 95 percent of their peer institutions.
"We'll definitely talk about education, and on that subject there's no way to avoid Margin of Excellence,"
said Jeff Nelson, administrative assistant to House Speaker Jim Braden. R-Clav Center.
Donna Voth, an aide to Senate Minority Leader Michael Johnston, D-Parsons, said the Democrats would discuss the budget, an expected tax windfall and tax reform. State Sen. Jerry Karr, D-
ning Committee.
A bill calling for forgiveable loans for students majoring in education will be introduced, said Avis Swartzman, assistant reviser of statutes.
The law would apply to students who obtain a loan, graduate and begin teaching in Kansas in subjects for which teachers are scarce. Each
We'll definitely talk about education, and on that subject there's no way to avoid Margin of Excellence.
Jeff Nelson
administrative assistant to House Speaker Jim Braden, R-Clay Center
Emporia, will brief the legislators about tax reform.
Several other bills concerning education will come before the Legislature in the spring, although legislators probably won't discuss them this weekend. The bills were developed by the Legislative Educational Plan-
year after graduation, one-seventh of the loan would be forgiven.
A bill calling for the revision of part of the Kansas Constitution dealing with education will be introduced. The bill calls for the deletion of all references to the state board of education, the Board of Regents and
the commissioner of education.
Avis said that one of the intents of the bill was to give the Legislature more freedom in making decisions about education.
For example, many Kansas community colleges would like to have their own governing boards. But the Legislature cannot create a board for community colleges because the Kansas Constitution says they must be under the governance of the board of education.
Avis also said that some legislators supported the idea of eliminating the board of education and, in its place, a cabinet appointed by the governor.
A third bill would suggest that elementary and secondary schools pay closer attention to the results of minimum competency tests. It suggests that the schools use the tests to locate weaknesses and to help beef up curriculum in areas where the weaknesses are most prevalent.
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