Prairie Hill Elementary in the College Community district in Cedar Rapids saw a steep drop in chronic absenteeism after focusing on relationships. This year it was named a Blue Ribbon School.
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Prairie Hill Elementary in the College Community district in Cedar Rapids saw a steep drop in chronic absenteeism after focusing on relationships. This year it was named a Blue Ribbon School.
New Cedar Rapids school board President Jennifer Neumann spoke about taking “accountability” and establishing trust with the community before being appointed Monday by fellow board members in a 4-3 vote.
Marissa Moore, a language arts teacher at Clear Creek Amana High School, inspires career pathways, builds confidence and shows “genuine care” for her students. She says high school students today get a bad reputation, but they are what she loves about her job.
State records indicate that Anne Eslinger worked for the school district as a full-time employee, monitoring students in study halls at Lincoln High School, until she was forced to resign on May 16, 2025.
As the Cedar Rapids school district faces a decline of 622 students this year, school leaders are asking the community to work with them to develop a strategic plan to increase enrollment and address facility and staffing needs.
As the Linn-Mar Community School District reaches the completion of a five-year plan, school leaders continue to look toward the future, taking steps to create a plan for the next decade.
Using the learning model called Instructional Empowerment, students in the Cedar Rapids school district work in teams of three or four to tackle questions posed by the teacher, fostering a culture of respectful discourse and a sense of belonging in the classroom.
More than 54,000 Iowa high school students are jointly enrolled in community college credit coursework, a number that’s been steadily climbing for the last decade.
Iowa state Sen. Molly Donahue is calling for the resignation of three Cedar Rapids school board members after a multimillion dollar school bond referendum failed voter approval Tuesday.
Multimillion dollar school bond referendums failed to garner voter approval Tuesday in the Williamsburg and Central City school districts.
Cedar Rapids schools Superintendent Tawana Grover wants to harness the momentum gained in Tuesday’s failed bond referendum vote to build a school district the community backs.
‘Mixed emotions’ felt by new board members as multimillion-dollar school bond referendum fails to pass
Unofficial results show the Cedar Rapids school district’s $117 million bond referendum narrowly failing by less than 1 percent — fewer than 200 votes short of approval. The referendum received just over 59 percent approval but requires a supermajority of 60 percent to pass.
Linn County voters in the Linn-Mar Community School District elected two incumbents and one newcomer to fill three open seats on the school board Tuesday.
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