City High School will host an Internet safety course for teenagers and parents Monday night. The event, sponsored by the school’s Parent, Student, Teacher Organization, will include Iowa City police officer Jorey Bailey and City High athletic director D’Anne Kroemer talking about the use and misuse of social media. The course is open to the [...]
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IOWA CITY – A former Iowa Hawkeye football player and son of Iowa City High School’s football coach has been reinstated as a coach after being suspended for leaving a student on school grounds with a BB gun. Michael Sabers was suspended from his duties last fall following an incident that involved a student having [...]
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IOWA CITY – Follow the aroma of food and you’ll find us. Those were my directions to this year’s Concours de Cuisine (cooking contest) at City High School – and they were right. I smelled the lemons for the soufflé au citron long before I entered the family and consumer science classroom. The sound of [...]
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The western half of the Iowa City school district saw $66.6 million worth of school building projects in the past 10 years, double the $33.4 million spent on the other side of the district, according to a Gazette analysis. That could give ammunition to people who have argued eastern Iowa City schools have been neglected [...]
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IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school board may establish new guidelines for what would compel the district to start planning for a new high school. The reason is the district has changed the way it counts students since the board voted two years ago to set “trigger points,” as it calls them, for [...]
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An Iowa City couple have donated $100,000 to endow a scholarship for City High School students who travel to Spain. The gift from Claire and Bob Ashman will be used to help at least one AP Spanish student go on the school’s annual trip to Spain starting in spring 2013, according to a news release [...]
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An Iowa City High student was arrested Tuesday after assaulting a classmate in gym class and then fleeing school Monday afternoon. According to Iowa City police, just after 1 p.m. Monday Caleb M. J. Busch, 18, was playing floor hockey in the gymnasium at City High School, 1900 Morningside Dr., when he used his hockey [...]
continue »City High School will host 18 high school marching bands at the Little Hawk Marching Band Invitational Saturday, Oct. 1. The event begins at 10 a.m. and will continue through 4 p.m. The awards ceremony, which begins at 4 p.m., will bring the event to an end. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for children. [...]
continue »The renowned Alloy Orchestra takes the Englert Theatre stage at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 30 for what film critic Roger Ebert calls “the film event of the year.” Alloy will perform their original score with a screening of the complete, restored version of Fritz Lang’s classic silent film “Metropolis.” Based in Cambridge, Mass., Alloy [...]
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IOWA CITY – Transparency, particularly when it comes to financial issues, is the key goal of the 10 individuals running for the Iowa City school board. The district recently revealed that it discovered $2 million in bookkeeping errors and that it was fined $25,000 by the Internal Revenue Service for making a late payment on [...]
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