Articles Tagged: Iowa City Community School District

IOWA PROFILE: Christine Boge’s gift will help close opportunity gaps and provide supports to students in need. The $1 million gift is the largest donation in the foundation’s 40-year history.

Early childhood educators and paraprofessionals are two career fields facing workforce shortages.

Iowa City’s school taxes to increase 8 cents from previous fiscal year. But under the state's rollback formula, most property owner’s school tax levy will decrease slightly — around a $44 reduction for the year.

School board members open to idea four-day week with more of a year-round calendar.

District officials continue to encourage indoor mask use for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to our schools, regardless of vaccination status.

InquirEd asks an essential question students answer through inquiry-based learning and discovery.

A new Iowa law that bans teaching “divisive concepts” is having a “chilling effect” on culturally responsive teaching and diversity, equity and inclusion in K-12 schools, some Iowa education experts say. Critical Race Theory is not actually mentioned in the law.

Upon graduating from the University of Iowa, students in the Grow Our Own program are guaranteed a position with the Iowa City Community School District, if there is an opening.

Schools end notifications after Linn and Johnson county public health departments announced an end to COVID-19 contact tracing efforts earlier this month.

During the pandemic, students discovered what learning environments worked best for them at home. Now, schools are trying to replicate the experience of that physical environment.

The incident occurred on a day that an anonymous, nationwide threat against schools called Friday “American School Shooting Day.”

Community members and students voice concerns that the Iowa City school district’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan is not enough.

Nye will appear in a livestreamed event with elementary students from throughout the Iowa City Community School District and across the state. Any elementary classroom, virtual program or home-school program in Iowa can register to attend.

Students with social anxiety, who feel self-conscious, or who don’t like navigating school hallways may focus better in virtual learning environment.

First-time school board members Maka Pilcher-Hayek and Jayne Finchwill join incumbents Ruthina Malone and J.P. Claussen on the Iowa City school board