COGS is crying foul on the fees – which have continued to swell since the union negotiated a half-off scholarship years ago.
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COGS is crying foul on the fees – which have continued to swell since the union negotiated a half-off scholarship years ago.
Budget cuts are the result of “chronic and persistent underfunding” of Iowa public schools, school board member Lisa Williams said at Tuesday’s meeting. The Iowa City school board voted unanimously to close the district’s smallest school.
Greenhouse showcase, egg hunts for kids and adults on tap
Avacentre venues already operating in Cedar Rapids, Solon
Preliminary site plans are taking shape for a mixed-use development at the former Transamerica site on Edgewood Road and 42nd Street NE, where more than two years ago some neighbors organized in opposition of a local developer’s proposal and prompted the property’s sale to another developer.
The bill would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to drive to any kind of job, not just farming, following a law passed last year that allows younger teens to work longer hours and later in the day. The bill reduces the distance a teen can drive under the “special minor’s restricted license” from 50 to 25 miles to school or a job. And driving cannot be part of the work.
“This university head came in and told us that Lia being on the team was non-negotiable. They also told us that if we ever spoke out about it, we would regret it, and we would spend the rest of our lives wishing that we hadn’t.”
The legislation is a limited version of what Reynolds originally proposed, but has still been met with fierce opposition from AEA officials and statehouse Democrats
The proposal passed by the House would require that two-thirds of the members in each chamber — 67 in the House and 34 in the Senate — agree on any legislation that increases Iowa's income tax on individuals or corporations.
The Iowa Senate will vote whether to confirm former Trump administration education official McKenzie Snow as director of the Iowa Department of Education
She has been charged with stealing nearly $30,000 from a youth softball association while she worked as the association’s treasurer.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked plans by American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative to build a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River wildlife refuge.
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