Articles Tagged: College Community School District

Educators say social-emotional learning can help improve students’ mental health, decrease bullying and teach career readiness skills

Educators continue to see value in offering the option to some students three years in to the pandemic.

Community Relations, Information Technology departments taking on students for paid 90-hour internships

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

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

Browse, sort or search public school employee salaries for fiscal year 2021

Area schools are increasing the cost of student meals up to 25 cents for the 2022-23 school year after two years of providing free breakfast and lunch with federal waivers.

Middle and high school students hard at work improving their archery technique after success at Iowa schools state tournament last month

Meals were made free for all students during the pandemic. Since all meals became free, schools have seen an increase in the number of students taking school meals, which includes fruits and vegetables, milk and whole grains.

The College Community School District notified parents it will extend winter break for children attending Prairie Crest Elementary to rid the building of asbestos after students and staff may have been exposed to it during construction.

During the pandemic, students discovered what learning environments worked best for them at home. Now, schools are trying to replicate the experience of that physical environment.

Students who participate in Future Now are showing positive social-emotional behavior, have a higher attendance rate and are enrolling in classes that are more challenging for them.

64 students and staff in the district are currently positive for COVID-19, and 117 in quarantine from exposure. 41 of those students positive for COVID-19 are in kindergarten through sixth grade, which is the population of students not yet eligible to be vaccinated.

Cedar Rapids schools in need of about 15 additional school bus drivers for the 2021-22 school year, which begins Monday.

Chicken, beef, cheese, pizza products, hamburger buns and individually packaged food items like condiments are harder to come by because of the COVID-19 pandemic, school officials say.