Articles Tagged: Iowa City Community School District

The Iowa City school board on Tuesday approved wage increases for teachers, paraprofessionals, secretaries and nutrition service workers.

The Iowa City school district is considering investing $104.6 million into the next round of projects in the district, including field houses and fine arts additions at the high schools, improvements to athletic fields, performance spaces, outdoor classrooms and playgrounds, and projects with community partners.

Seniors feel prepared for life after high school thanks to rigorous academics, hands-on activities

Iowa City schools projected to have extra capacity of 7,322 students by the 2029-30 school year

The district began providing devices to all students shortly after closing to students in March 2020 for the pandemic. That 1-to-1 program will remain, but students in kindergarten through fifth grade now will keep their devices at school. Families can opt in to letting their children taking a device home.

Full-day preschool will be offered at all 20 elementary schools in the Iowa City Community School District beginning this fall.

Performing arts venues in Iowa City Community School District’s high schools could be the next facilities to see improvements following completion of a 100-page facility study.

After more than two years of budget reductions — which included closing an elementary school in Hills — the Iowa City Community School District is “not in a cutting mode” this fiscal year.

Iowa schools need substitute teachers, and people without teaching backgrounds can fill those roles. Here’s how.

Policy requires phones to be ‘detached from the student’s body’

The Iowa City school district will spend $2.1 million over the next year to partner with Junior Achievement on creation of an immersive career exploration program that educators say will help students chart a course for their high school education and beyond.

The suit claimed the public school district’s policy that restricted bathroom use for transgender students and visitors was distressing and violated his rights. The dismissal follows the impending removal of ‘gender identity’ as a protected Iowa class.

Property owners across Johnson County have received letters detailing expected property tax rates as required by state law, but county and city officials are warning that the letters are not reflective of what taxpayers can expect to pay.

A Central City orchard needs to find a new buyer for about 50,000 pounds of apples and other small and new Iowa farmers worry about their expansion plans amid uncertainty about federal ag policies.

The Iowa City Community School District announced in August that it would demolish the school, which closed at the end of the 2023-24 school year.