Articles Tagged: School boards

Some school leaders feel their districts aren’t getting enough out of abnormally-governed AEA model

A teacher said the quiet part out loud. Will school boards respond with deafening silence?

The group leading the charge to pass Cedar Rapids’ $220 million school bond referendum on Nov. 7 is relying on voter outreach and trying to combat public confusion over what’s part of the bond issue.

In early September, I came across a copy of an email received by a resident of the Cedar Rapids Community …

Starting today, Iowa teens ages 14 to 17 can work more jobs at longer hours, low-income families will face new requirements for receiving public benefits such as food assistance, and more Iowa parents will qualify for child care assistance, but will have to work more hours to remain eligible.

A hearing Monday on Iowa school districts’ processes for reviewing and removing school library books and materials some parents and community members deem obscene devolved into testy exchanges between Democrats and Republicans

Ten Iowa middle- and high-school girls — two of them transgender — spoke Thursday at a legislative hearing on legislation that would ban transgender girls from competing in girls athletics in Iowa. Also, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed her first bill of the session: a $3.6 billion K-12 public education package.

The Iowa Republican blasted the creation of a Department of Justice task force to address concerns raised by the National School Board Association. If there are threats, he said, they can be handled by state and local law enforcement offices that “probably have been handling it for decades.”