- Basehor accepts $1 million state grant to extend Wolf Creek Parkway. After the Kansas Department of Transportation in February offered the city $1 million to connect 155th and 158th streets just north of U.S. Highway 24-40, Mayor Terry Hill called the grant a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” The city council accepted the grant in June by a split vote, leaving the city on the hook for the remaining costs of the project, estimated at about $260,000.
- Basehor-Linwood schools bounce back on state assessments, ACT scores. Good news about student performance poured in this fall for the Basehor-Linwood school district, as leaders learned that the district had met the federal Adequate Yearly Progress standard after falling short in 2010, graduating students’ average ACT scores had jumped to reverse a sinking trend and state assessment performances had earned the district an all-time high in Standard of Excellence honors. One indicator that did not provide positive news was the district’s graduation rate, which sunk under a new federal rate formula that administrators said unfairly discounted many students enrolled in the Basehor-Linwood Virtual School.
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