Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Community School District

Cedar Rapids school board considering approving new agreement with CrisisGo.

First, a vote to extend the district’s Physical Plant and Equipment Levy, a capital projects fund, will go to voters next September

Police say it’s because of the seriousness of the offenses students are committing.

The domes at each middle school were closed last month after they were determined to be structurally unstable

With more interest in local politics comes more ‘creative’ campaign activity and more threats and harassment of campaign disclosure board staff.

Voters in the Cedar Rapids Community School District overwhelmingly rejected a $220 million bond issue in this past Tuesday’s election. …

Superintendent Tawana Grover said she has ‘no regrets’ about the $220 bond question, as it gave the district a chance to ‘reengage our community.’

The threat quickly was determined by police to be unfounded and classes in the district went on uninterrupted. But the threat was then shared by others on social media.

In Linn County, the trickle-down effect of state and national politics seems to have swayed campaign donors in some Cedar Rapids and Linn-Mar school board races that are on the ballot Nov. 7, with right-leaning candidates out-raising some incumbents.

The new Bolt Barbershop makeover at Franklin Middle School offers haircuts to kids who can’t get them outside of school. But that’s just a little bit off the top of what the program does for students in their most formative years.

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.

Also, Linn County supervisors award $50,000 in community attraction grants

District officials answered additional questions following Gazette forum

Opposition group voices concerns over higher taxes and larger schools farther away from the students with bond referendum going to voters Nov. 7.

On Oct. 11, school officials announced the evacuation and closure of Taft’s east dome after an inspection found it was unstable. Subsequent inspections of both schools’ domes prompted Monday’s announcement that all four will close.