Articles Tagged: Iowa City Community School District

The enrollment deadline for Iowa City’s virtual academy was extended to Aug. 9, after the school board reviewed new health and safety guidance for COVID-19

Instances of seclusion and restraint went from 1,400 during the 2018-2019 school year to 69 in 2020-2021, progress leaders attribute to a “culture shift.”

The “Portrait of a Graduate” was developed by district administrators, educators, students and community members to represent what skills, character traits and social-emotional competencies students should have by graduation to succeed in college, a career and life.

This summer, the district is focusing its summer school efforts on first-graders, who have seen the biggest academic losses.

Paras Bassuk of Iowa City West launched the group to get the voices of youth heard by state legislators

Iowa City High School students placed second in the National High School Mock Trial Championship this year, and won the state high school competition in Iowa for the first time in the team’s history - their ’biggest achievement’ in high school.

Students 16 and up in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City high schools will be able to get the Pfizer vaccine May 12 and 13.

Maria Martin running Grant Wood Elementary after 15 years as West High dean

Kirkwood hopes to continue expanding program by reaching more students of color, potential first-generation college students

District to follow Iowa Department of Public Health guidance, possibly ending quarantine early for hundreds of students

253 Northwest Junior High students — most of any school in the district — in quarantine

CORALVILLE – More than 100 Northwest Junior High School students – about 15 percent of the student body – are …

IOWA CITY – Students Ruba Ahmed-Abdelmutalab, 16, and Nadeen Mohammad, 17, spent Friday afternoon decorating the main office doors of …

IOWA CITY – Accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, the Iowa City Community School District is launching a permanent online learning …

IOWA CITY – Iowa City Mayor Bruce Teague encouraged students to continue fighting for equity and an end to systemic …