IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school district has started its campaign for a February vote that could give the district $100 million for construction projects. Superintendent Stephen Murley discussed the issue at a news conference Monday – the first time in at least the past several years that the district has had a news [...]
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A Cedar Rapids man faces a criminal trespass charge after allegedly violating a warning to stay away from Cedar Rapids schools. Chad Chumley, 29, of 1500 Oakland Rd., Apt. 511, was arrested on the misdemeanor charge just after 8 a.m. Monday after he allegedly visited Garfield Elementary School, 1201 Maplewood Dr. NE. Chumley was found [...]
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Cedar Rapids School District representatives participated in a live chat Friday regarding the school board’s recent decision to close Polk and Monroe schools and realign district boundaries. Chat participants included Marcia Hughes, Community Relations Supervisor; Mary Ellen Maske, Executive Administrator of Education; and Mike Gumm, Shive Hattery Project Manager, who can answer questions regarding the [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Judith Maher plans to sit in the front row, or close to it, at Monday’s school board meeting. “The board members are going to have to look me in the eye when they make their vote,” Maher said. “I want them to see me.” The grandmother of three Polk Elementary School [...]
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JESUP – Bruce Wall was asked if he felt it all was worth it, now that there was the benefit of hindsight. There was a pause before he answered. “Yes, I think it was worth the fight,” he said. “There were a lot of good things that have come from this. I think it was the right [...]
continue »The Marion Independent School District Board of Directors approved the purchase of the Kirkwood Marion Center at its meeting Monday night. Kirkwood Community College originally purchased the former Longfellow Elementary School building from the Marion School District in 1991. Both sides say the $700,000 sale makes sense because of the changing needs for the college [...]
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I mentioned in a post a couple of weeks ago that the Cedar Rapids School District’s facilities process (aka closing schools and redrawing attendance boundaries) is running on two tracks. There’s the public process, with school board meetings, such as the one scheduled for 5 p.m. today at Grant Wood AEA, and open houses [...]
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So I’m waiting for Patton. Heck, I might even settle for Bluto Blutarsky and his Germans at Pearl Harbor. I’m waiting for that moment in the midst of this Cedar Rapids school closure/boundary change debate for Superintendent Dave Benson or someone to stand up and say something like this: “Look, I know there will [...]
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The Iowa City school board accepted Tuesday the resignation of Paul Bobek, the school district’s chief financial officer, effective immediately. Superintendent Stephen Murley would not provide details on why Bobek submitted his resignation Monday, although he said it was voluntary and not an early retirement. “The timing was unexpected,” he said. Bobek, who had been [...]
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UPDATE: In just his second week in office, new west-side District 4 council member Scott Olson has come up with a plan he says will end an impasse over the siting of a new city recreation center and hopefully will help keep Harrison Elementary School, which is on a school-closing list, open. Olson on Monday said [...]
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