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Saturday, November 16. 2002 All Casper Sty-Tribune REFUND: Tublic schools cannot charge tuition, Bohling said The academy, he said, has a contract with the school district that explicitly allows the charter school to charge tuition. "I spent the whole year just trying to get these people to work together," Nicholas said The academy officials could have called the afternoon session "day care" but they preferred to call It a lull-day kindergarten because they wanted to be an education program, he said There's no question that the school district exempted them," Nicholas said The Legislature, he said, could make it easier for everyone by making it clear that il parents are willing to pay extra to use public facilities for their children they should be allowed to do so. Parents of the academy kindergartners were recently notified that th charter school received a grant from the Shrum Foundation that reduced the tuition for full-day kindergarten from $225 per month to $50 per month. The academy has an enrollment of about 100 students K-6, said Kristi Martin, administrative assistant for the charter school.

Continued froai Al learned tliat the Sheridan nun ty School District No. also Is charging parents lor tuition lor their children to attend kinder garten all day. "Public schools cannot charge tuition and so that's another incident thai just came to our attention and we'll in vestigating that as well," Bohling said. School districts can charge certain lees, such as lor certain materials for a class project, she said "But we have to guarantee our children free and appropriate education. So they can't charge lor textbooks or tuition," Bohling said Head said the situation is not as black and white as Bohling says.

The charter school isn't charging tuition for the hall day of kindergarten provided by state law, and that tax money pays for, he said. If the parents decided to keep their chil dren in the school beyond the half day. they were charged tuition. "They were confused. I was confused about the ability to charge tuition If you go beyond hall a day," Head said.

"We need to get that clarified." "I suspect they're going to come back and say it's day care," Head said. The Albany County school district, he said, has some schools that offer all day kindergarten but it is paid lor with a grant, he said. "We don't charge tuition," he said. "Our lawyer is talking to their lawyer." The academy's lawyer is Phil Nicholas, a state representative who wrote the law authorizing charter schools. Nicholas said the law is in conflict because it clearly forbids charter schools from charging tuition but also allows waivers from school district regulations 1( the school has a contract with the school district.

The academy, he said, has a contract with the school district that explicitly allows the charter school to charge tuition. Nicholas said Bohllng's predecessor, Joe Simpson, advised the academy officials that they could charge tuition lor the full-day added kindergarten. He also said that Head asked him to represent the academy because the school district's relationship with the charter school was strained. The original people who started the charter school, he said, thought Head was "the anti-Christ." Some of those people are gone now. Head, he said, was just doing his job.

BUDGET: White House will get its money, spokesman says HEBRON Continued from Al The militant Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility, saying It was avenging the killing of its northern West Bank commander, lyad Sawal ha, by Israeli troops several days ago. Explosive violence In Hebron can have wider Impllca Hons. The city Is a tinderbox of tension where politics meets religion. The Muslims here are among the most devout and the Jewish settlers among the most radical, and there are daily provocations and practically no neighborly relations between the two sides. Hours later Israeli military helicopters fired missiles into Gaza City, hitting a metal workshop in a congested area, witnesses said.

The army said it was used by Palestinian militants to manufacture weapons. No injuries were reported. Both attacks come five days after a Palestinian gunman killed five people, including two small boys, on an Israeli kibbutz, and it was sure to increase pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to respond decisively. One idea that could arise again is the expulsion of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat which Israel's new foreign minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been strongly advocating. the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, dozens of Islamic Jihad supporters rushed into the streets in celebration, some firing in the air.

This is retaliation for the daily crimes and ugly massacres committed by the Zionist occupation against our people," one armed man said over loudspeaker. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis since Oct. 21 when 14 people were killed in a bus bombing in northern Israel. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the Palestinians had carried out a "Sabbath massacre." "No political process can take root while these atrocities continue to be carried out by Palestinian terrorists," said ministry spokesman Gilad Millo. Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz were consulting by telephone, but there were no plans to.

convene a special Cabinet meeting. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "horrified by the despicable terrorist attack." Annan has spoken out against Israeli military actions but Friday's statement was one his toughest on Palestinian violence. The attack came as Egypt and Arafat's Fatah movement were trying to persuade the Islamic militant group Hamas to stop attacks on civilians in Israel, at least until after Israel's Jan. 28 election.

Islamic Jihad is not part of the talks and even an agree- ment In those negotiations would not have stopped Friday's attacks; a possible moratorium would not apply to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The so-called "worshippers' lane," which links the Jewish settlement of Klryat Arba and downtown Hebron, has been targeted by Palestinian gunmen In the past. "It's a real problem to secure every centimeter and this time, through careful, intricate planning the attack succeeded," said reserve Col. Yoni Fiegel, a former commander of Hebron. There was no Immediate reaction by the Palestinian Authority.

Also on Friday, In Anzar, a Palestinian village near the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli troops killed Mahmoud Obeld, 28, an activist in Arafat's Fatah movement, as he tried to evade arrest, army officials said. Obeid's father, Abbas Obeid, said his son was shot and killed when he opened the door to his house to look outside. And in the West Bank city of Ramallah, several Israeli soldiers stopped a Palestinian producer with Associated Press Television News. Haitham Hamad said he was beaten and kicked in the legs and head, even after identifying himself as a journalist. He was briefly treated at a hospital and released.

The army said it was checking the incident. Hebron had been quiet in recent weeks, and Israeli troops withdrew last month from most of the Palestinian-controlled sector of the city. Friday's shooting attack came after the start of the Jewish Sabbath. Nearly all settlers in Hebron and many residents of Kiryat Arba are religiously observant and hold Friday evening prayers at the Tomb, which is revered by both Muslims and Jews as the traditional burial place of the biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Hebron has had a history of deadly Jewish-Arab violence.

Jews had lived there for centuries alongside Arabs until a spasm of rage swept the city in 1929. Arabs rioted, killed dozens of Jews with guns and axes and drove the others out, destroying the city's ancient Jewish quarter. After Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, Jews began moving back into Hebron, and today some 450 Israeli settlers many of them considered extremist -live in several enclaves in the town, surrounded by more than 100,000 Palestinians. It is the only West Bank city where Jews and Palestinians live together, and relations have been extremely tense. ten statement Friday.

"This is a very big deal for cities across the country." Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, who will run the Senate when Republicans take the majority in January, said the delayed increases would not cause a problem. "We'll take care of that the first thing when we get back," he said. "We're going to give it a high priority." Bush met Friday with the two top Republicans on Congress' Appropriations committees, House Appropriations Chairman Bill Young, R-Fla, and Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, of the Senate Appropriations panel. People familiar with the meeting said the president wants the remaining spending bills finished before he gives his State of the Union address on Jan.

28, and said he wants them to total about $750 billion. That is about $20 billion less than Democrats and many Republicans want. Continued from Al "There's a big bank account over the next eight weeks to get things going," said Trent Duffy, spokesman for the White House budget office. "And we're confident that when Congress returns, they will deliver the additional funding the White House called for." In one of the highest profile initiatives of his budget last February, Bush proposed big increases for the new year for state and local emergency personnel, public health systems and dozens of other countert-error programs. With lawmakers of both parties expressing support, the only question seemed to be how much they would add to his plan.

A fierce budget fight, however, which has pitted Bush against Democrats and some Republicans, has stalled the bills that were to deliver the extra money for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1. With lawmakers ready to leave town, immigration inspectors. Only two of the 13 annual spending bills for fiscal 2003 have been completed, both covering the Pentagon. The rest of government -from NASA to job training is being financed at last year's levels under temporary spending legislation that runs through Jan.

11. Those budgets will be squeezed tighter on Jan. 1, when agencies will have to dig into them to pay for a 3.1 percent pay raise for workers. Supporters of the extra money say it is those dollars, not creation of a new agency, that is most important for security programs. The nation's mayors are extremely disappointed that Congress soon will leave town and adjourn for the year" without providing more money Bush proposed for first-re-sponder emergency workers, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, president of the U.S.

Conference of Mayors, said in a writ- that means most federal programs will be financed at last year's levels or less until at least mid-January, leaving the proposed increases in limbo. These include his fiscal 2003 proposals lor: $3.5 billion to help first-re-sponders pay for items like pro tective gear, chemical detection equipment and training, compared to $924 million in 2002. $4.3 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services to battle bioterrorism, a $1.3 billion increase. This includes money for research, laboratory improvements and purchase of anthrax vaccines. $5.3 billion for the new Transportation Security Administration, $600 million over last year.

The agency is supposed to protect airports, ports and other transportation facilities. Bush also would add money next year for more Coast Guard personnel, a more modern FBI computer system and more FBI and border patrol agents and SPENDING: Filing required after election amount. Kathy Emmons, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for superintendent, received $34,130 and spent $35,513. Re-elected incumbent Republican State Auditor Max Maxfield received $43,122 and spent $41,212. Sen.

Mark Harris, D-Green River, the Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for auditor, received $14,938 and spent $13,184. Re-elected Republican State Treasurer Cynthia Lum-mis raised $9,275 and spent $12,151. Lummis was unopposed. penses which will be paid soon," according to the prepared statement. "My campaign, which has been kept strictly separate from my Transition Office, is currently raising the rest of the money to pay off the debt." Bebout received $722,345 in contributions and had expenses of $691,167.

Nighswonger had to ask the Bebout campaign for a correction on its report since it did not include the correct signatures, she said. Re-elected incumbent Republican Secretary of State Joe Meyer received $14,585 in contributions and spent $9,311, she said. Meyer's challenger, Libertarian Marie Brossman who received 18 percent of the vote received nothing and spent nothing. Republican Trent Blankenship, the successful candidate for superintendent of public instruction, received $37,500 and spent the same of contributions and expenses by late Friday in the Secretary of State's database, she said. That information will be available Tuesday, she said.

But Nighswonger had general totals. The candidates Freudenthal received $533,424 in contributions and listed $512,099 in expenses, Nighswonger said. In a prepared statement, Freudenthal said that almost 2,400 individuals contributed more than $428,000 to the total. In-kind contributions amounted to more than $4,000, contributions from political action committees amounted to more than $68,000, and the Wyoming Democratic Party contributed more than $26,000, according to the prepared statement from Freudenthal. "The campaign has a debt of $25,000 from the Primary, which is a loan my wife and I made to the campaign, and it has about another $15,000 in ex- SHOE SnW Continued from Al additional three days to comply, and pay a $25 late fee, Nighswonger said.

State law requires all candidates for Wyoming offices to file reports of their contributions and expenses 10 days after a primary, general or special election. Wyoming is the only state that requires filings after elections. The Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee on Friday approved a bill that would require filings of contributions seven days before an election. The filing deadline applies to candidates for all offices, including the top five state officials, judicial, legislative, county, municipal, school district boards and college boards, Nighswonger said. Candidates for special districts, such as conservation districts, are not required to file campaign finance reports, she said.

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