The founder of Empowering Youths of Iowa — a nonprofit that provides one-on-one mentoring to students in the Cedar Rapids Community School District — will receive the ‘Who Is My Neighbor?’ award on Sunday.
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The founder of Empowering Youths of Iowa — a nonprofit that provides one-on-one mentoring to students in the Cedar Rapids Community School District — will receive the ‘Who Is My Neighbor?’ award on Sunday.
With the $28 million sale of Mercy Iowa City to the University of Iowa just over two weeks from closing, the 150-year-old community hospital’s largest bondholders are seeking court affirmation they will get the vast majority of that money “promptly.”
Given wind chills in Johnson County could plummet below negative-35 degrees Tuesday, the University of Iowa on Friday announced it’s not holding in-person classes on what was scheduled to be the first day of the spring semester.
Almost 150 teachers hired for the 2023-24 school year, leaving 25 open teaching positions managed with ‘creative’ solutions
Instead of the nearly $40 million Legislative appropriations increase Iowa’s Board of Regents wanted in the next budget year, Gov. Kim Reynolds has recommended a $12.3 million bump — amounting to a 2.5 percent increase for each of Iowa’s public universities.
Funeral held for sixth grader known as ‘Smiley’a week after Perry shooting.
The new chief integration officer that University of Iowa Health Care has appointed to manage its complex merger with Mercy Iowa City — following UIHC’s $28 million bankruptcy acquisition of the community hospital — could earn $780,000 this year, according to her professional services agreement.
A letter to Mercy Iowa City patients went out over the weekend about its transition to University of Iowa Health Care ownership asking them to “continue to schedule and go to your appointments as usual.”
When interviewed by Iowa investigators, the board alleges, Paye couldn’t name any of her instructors or classmates at Med-Life, although she passed the national exam on her first attempt before being granted a license to practice in Iowa.
The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City school districts are re-shelving books in libraries and classrooms after a federal judge temporarily blocked much of a law passed last year in Iowa.
The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week said in a statement Monday that they “had no inkling he intended the horrible violence he was about to inflict.”
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