Education

Nine candidates are vying for four seats on the Cedar Rapids Community School District board election.

New video talks about all the equipment and construction projects funded by the Physical Plant and Equipment Levy, on the ballot for renewal Nov. 7

As attorneys wrangle over dwindling money available to pay lawyers, bankers, creditors and employees with the now-bankrupt Mercy Iowa City, the hospital’s pensioners are asking for a voice too.

Unlike Iowa’s public universities that reported larger student bodies this fall than last, many of Iowa’s private colleges saw enrollment drop this semester. And even those bucking the decline have smaller student bodies today than they did years ago before the pandemic struck.

“I can still remember we talked about it a lot,” Jerre Stead, 80, told a crowd of hundreds Thursday on the University of Iowa campus, where in earned his bachelor’s degree in 1965. “Mary Joy said, ‘Someday, if we ever are fortunate enough, having had multiple children born here, we want to give something back for that. We want to make a difference at the university’.”

Isolated teachers, small classrooms and electrical problems to no longer ‘impact learning’ under facility plan.

The east dome of Taft is closed for repairs after an inspection found it was unstable.

9 candidates vie for four seats in the Cedar Rapids school board election