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A jury has acquitted a former central Iowa coach and teacher who was accused of assaulting one of a group of students trying to toilet-paper his house.
The Cedar Rapids district says change is coming before 2021-2022 school year starts to address data showing racial disparities in allegations made against students
Black students in the Cedar Rapids district are far more likely to have allegations of criminal wrongdoing made against them than are white students -- and the disparity has been worsening,
The Cedar Rapids Community School District is one of the top three finalists for the first-ever award for excellence for implementing the science of reading.
Para educators in the Cedar Rapids Community School District are getting a pay raise of 17 cents this fall, the lowest pay increase in more than a decade.
This summer, the district is focusing its summer school efforts on first-graders, who have seen the biggest academic losses.
Kennedy High School twin sisters -- who are advocating for the removal of school resource officers from the school district and for classes to include more Black history, literature and art -- are proud of themselves for speaking up for equity, but say they are ready to leave the “racial trauma” they experienced in Cedar Rapids’ schools behind after they graduated this week.
Paras Bassuk of Iowa City West launched the group to get the voices of youth heard by state legislators
In her valedictory speech Thursday, Kennedy High School graduate Allison Hubbell encouraged her peers to take the disruption caused by the pandemic and use it to explore who they want to become.
Iowa City Superintendent Matt Degner suspects more students to be put in quarantine if they are exposed to COVID-19 and not wearing masks
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 who are a part of Washington High School’s green team will continue to care for and water the trees this summer.
A new order was passed in the final hours of the 2021 legislative session and signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds just after midnight Thursday morning, mere hours before the next school day was to start
The district is officially registering community partners for the first time to better track how students are benefiting from these partnerships and what other resources might be needed.
Another round of political commentary, courtesy of The Gazette! The crew will reflect on the end of session and the most recent hot button happenings in politics.
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