An Iowa City man — with an accumulating history of protest-styled political activism — is suing the University of Iowa, its police, and a public records officer for a lack of what he characterized as legally-required transparency around his December police encounter.
A study published by Brown and Princeton universities shows that kindergarten tuition at Iowa private schools went up by between 21 percent and 24 percent since the implementation of the state’s Education Savings Account program.
The day University of Iowa administrators announced women’s gymnastics head coach Larissa Libby had resigned — more than a month after placing her on paid administrative leave following an external program review — they signed a settlement paying her a total $449,000, plus a final payout of her $173,349 salary.
“The grounds asserted for just cause termination included failure to make satisfactory improvement in areas of expectations identified in the evaluation and performance action plan,” a news release stated.
Tanager Place’s second annual LGBTQ+ Youth Summer Camp in August is free for middle and high school kids.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Marion schools are among 38 grant recipients under the $900K program, created by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds after she rejected $29 million in federal funding.
The executive assistant to Iowa State University’s senior vice president for operations and finance — a recently-hired top administrator who left in December after signing a $124,000 separation agreement — has agreed to settle harassment and retaliation allegations for the same amount.
School board vice president J.P. Claussen is resigning to pursue a teaching job at Iowa City West High School.
The University of Iowa’s longest-serving dean, heading toward retirement after 17 years, now has a successor — with a six-month search landing University of Kentucky research professor Jill M. Kolesar.
One-third of Grinnell College’s campus is now running on renewable energy with a new 9,000-panel solar array, the largest private solar installation in the state.
Prairie High School graduate and immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo plans to study business, with hopes of becoming a financial manager and eventually a CEO.
Julio Chavez, who will study at Kirkwood, wants to become a nurse anesthetist.
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