“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.
The data potentially included staff members’ Social Security numbers, bank account and routing numbers, and medical information
Browse, sort or search public school employee salaries for fiscal year 2021
Hundreds of students were referred to and waiting for school-based therapy services, the Cedar Rapids Community School District last month reported.
Certified teacher added to the 10-week summer school program this year to help address K-5 graders gaps in reading and math.
Cedar Rapids school board votes to reduce the number of school resource officers in schools from seven to five
Kids on Course University distributing free meals Friday with Cedar Rapids Community School District summer school programs closed because of a cybersecurity breach
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