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Cedar Rapids school board member Dexter Merschbrock asks for a delay in a vote expected later this month on a new school resource officer contract.

Chen is one of only 161 high school seniors in the U.S. receiving the recognition for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and technical education fields.

This fundraising program allows schools to earn money by saving Hy-Vee receipts. For every $200 saved, $1 is earned – 50 percent as a monetary donation and 50 percent in Hy-Vee gift cards.

Students gain skills of communication, leadership and critical thinking and can even earn college scholarships.

Connor Fitzgerald and Dominic Patrick won first place for their innovative project for Build Iowa’s Future Design Challenge, incorporating sustainability with solar panels and a greenhouse.

Long-time owners Heather and Jeff Norman retiring after providing nature-based preschool to Iowa City students where they can explore the outdoors, care for the animals and learn to garden.

Wilsee Kollie, who started high school ‘shy and soft-spoken,’ is graduating as a leader and advocate for equity

‘Quiet, petite’ Christina Sehna plans to go to college to study construction management, following in the footsteps of her grandfather

Bartels, a graduating senior at Marion High School, is a member of Green Bandanna, a student group that advocates for mental health awareness, named for wearing green bandannas on their backpacks.

When the fathers of Dylan Bohon and Anne Baumann died three months apart while the teens were in high school, the students found comfort in the Xavier community.

Heder plans to be a lawyer some day, inspired by her parents who are refugees from Bosnia.

Gailushas is the recipient of the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he plans to study chemistry.

The pilot program is expected to make preschool more accessible to families who can’t drop off and pick up their children during work hours

The team researches, designs, raises funds for and builds electric cars that comply with strict specifications to ensure safety and stability during competitions

Decisions made at state legislative level prohibit school boards from making local decisions they feel are best for their school districts and encouraging increasingly polarizing views from citizens