DES MOINES — Iowa Department of Education Director Jason Glass said being named a finalist for a superintendent job in Colorado won’t have any effect on Gov. Terry Branstad’s pursuit of education reform in Iowa. “The education reform agenda in Iowa was built to be independent of any one person,” Glass said during a break [...]
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University of Iowa students who are running businesses will have the opportunity to highlight their startups at a business fair on Friday. The university’s third annual business fair at the student business incubator will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory, 322 N. Clinton St. Students will have [...]
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It’s like chocolate and peanut butter, love and marriage, Abercrombie and Fitch. It should be, anyway. If highly qualified teachers have such positive effects on student achievement, and if we’re serious about school equity and tackling achievement gaps between different demographic groups, it only makes sense to make sure highly qualified teachers are hired [...]
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Resilience. The word and its other iterations resonate, a conversational refrain in conversations about Beat for Peace. “The big push of it is, we want to create resilient students and children,” said Paul Corbierè, co-creator of Beat for Peace. “People who are not resilient get taken down and there’s a snowballing effect, where resilient people [...]
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It’s official, for now: Taxpayers in the Cedar Rapids Community School District will see a 69 cent increase in the district’s property tax levy rate. At a regular meeting Monday, board members certified the district’s fiscal year 2014 budget, which includes raising the tax rate to $15.85 per $1,000 of taxable valuation from $15.16 during [...]
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Two new administrators will join the Cedar Rapids Community School District on Monday, July 1. At Monday’s regular meeting, the district’s school board approved hiring Candi Lynch and Karla Ries. Lynch will become the principal at Johnson School of the Arts, replacing retiring current principal Kevin Uhde. Ries, the district’s new director of instructional services, [...]
continue »By The Gazette Editorial Board —- Iowa legislators have done more than pass an education reform bill; they’ve passed two. Two significantly distinct proposals put forth by the Republican-controlled House and Democrat-controlled Senate. That means a handful of senators and representatives will head into conference committee to try to reconcile the competing bills. Some [...]
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New information from the Iowa Department of Education predicts a promising enrollment future for the state’s public school districts. The population of students served in public schools is expected to increase by 4,351 learners by 2017-18, according to the department’s new enrollment projections released Thursday. Statewide certified enrollment for the 2012-13 school year is 476,245 [...]
continue »Administrators in the Cedar Rapids Community School District have looked in house to fill two empty positions. On Monday, April 8 the Cedar Rapids school board is set to vote on whether to approve Candi Lynch as the new principal at Johnson School of the Arts and Karla Ries as district director of instructional services. [...]
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As the school year winds down, it’s the beginning of transitions for a few area administrators. Both the Anamosa and Clear Creek Amana community school districts will lose their current superintendents on June 30. “I’ve had a wonderful 34 years in public education,” said Denise Schares, retiring Clear Creek Amana superintendent. “Our youngest child graduated [...]
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