In March, the Kansas Department of Transportation hosted a series of six listening sessions in Western Kansas, including one in Liberal, as part of the agency’s Highway Mobility and Expansion Strategy.
The study looks at various ways to improve highway mobility, safety and accessibility in 44 counties in and near Southwest Kansas.
KDOT Director of Planning and Development Mike Moriarity said the idea for the listening sessions came out of local consult meetings, which he considers KDOT’s premiere public engagement effort.
Two routine action items highlighted a short meeting Monday for the Seward County Commission.
The first action item concerned the reappointment of Angela Eichman as county appraiser for four years.
“The Board of County Commissioners pursuant to K.S.A. 19-430 and amendments thereto is directed on July 1, 1993, and July 1 of each fourth year thereafter to appoint a county appraiser for a term of four years and until a successor is appointed,” Vice Chairman Steve Helm said. “Angela Eichman was first appointed in 2009 and has been appointed in 2013, 2017 and 2021. The recommendation is to approve Resolution 2025-08 appointing Angela Eichman as the county appraiser for a term beginning July 1, 2025, and expiring June 30, 2029.”
State testing has been going on throughout the U.S. and Monday, the USD 480 school board heard an update on recent testing at Liberal High School.
“We discovered, through a lot of data dives, we have students who are scoring in the high 20s on their ACT but scoring 1's and 2's on the state assessments, so we knew we needed to ramp things up and take a different approach to what we were doing because the state assessments weren't truly representing what our students are capable of,” LHS Assistant Principal Brandi Fowler said. “We came together as a group and we came up with our ACE the Test initiative, and the goal of that was to address apathy of the students, help the students become more confident in the content they'd be tested on, and establish a strong testing environment. Those were the three key aspects we felt would move the needle for us, and we also wanted to be sure we had a student version, a parent version, and a teacher version so everyone was on the same page. We especially wanted the parents to know there were things they could do to help their students succeed, and we definitely wanted the teachers to know that as well. We gave that information out before the parent-teacher conferences. We had multiple teachers and instructional coaches helping us with getting all of this together, so we really all worked together to make sure the students had everything they needed.”
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