Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Community School District

School district exploring solutions to recruit more employees of color and attract more teachers to the field

Noreen Bush, who is on medical leave, to resign effective June 30

School leaders detail innovative ways they have been working to close the achievement gap that grew during the pandemic

With the school year already underway, the council’s vote ends a monthslong debate between city and school district officials over the presence of school resource officers mainly in middle schools.

Bargaining group receives largest pay increase in the last five years at an additional 75 cents an hour

The district’s cybersecurity insurance includes coverage of up to $5 million liability limit and a $50,000 deductible

Cedar Rapids schools reports ‘cybersecurity incident,’ Linn-Mar schools report disruption of online systems within a month of each other.

“That's the best we could do as a council,” Mayor O’Donnell says after the school board declined the city’s offers to negotiate to keep the two additional school resource officers or to meet to discuss the program.

Eastern Iowa schools in need of more drivers as the first day of school approaches.

“It’s not logical to assume that five SROs will be able to do the work of seven,” the police chief said. City officials say changes account for the workload 5 instead of 7 SROs can handle after the school district removed them from middle schools.

Grant Wood AEA training teachers in four school districts in a model designed to strengthen the teacher-child relationship.

Cedar Rapids school board president David Tominsky said the school board is not considering changing their decision on a contract for school resource officers after the mayor offered for the city to fund an additional two officers for middle schools.

The students learn ‘how to work,’ how to interview, work in a professional environment and financial literacy in the eight-week program

In its second year, the Leaders Believers Achievers Foundation’s summer program, CR Dreams, is teaching students to see their value, grow leadership skills and work toward achieving goals.

The school board voted last month to decrease the number of police in schools to five, removing them from middle schools altogether.