Education

Touching on issues past and present, Coe College’s 30-plus year forum series for this academic year kicks off in September and runs through April with 23 installments covering eight topics — from “critical race theory” to evolution to “The History of Sport in the United States.”

Founding director of the trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospitals — where he also serves as executive vice president of community health engagement and chief of trauma and acute care surgery — participated in a public forum Monday as the third finalist to lead University of Iowa Health Care and its medical college.

Rising prices affect busing students, school lunches and construction

The school is the second elementary to be opened under the Cedar Rapids Community School District’s facility master plan, which is expected to lower operational costs for the district and address uneven distribution of resources

There were 144 reported incidents of seclusion and restraint during the 2021-22 school year, a decline of more than 600 from four years ago.

Discussions will focus on a $312 million plan that includes building a new aquatic center and a 1,200-student middle school

Former school board President Shawn Eyestone resigns to pursue higher education

The second of four finalists to succeed Brooks Jackson as University of Iowa Health Care’s vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Carver College of Medicine has served as executive dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine for three years.