Iowa to publish annual report card ranking for schools
Gov. Branstad outlined plans for a yearly school report card to rate Iowa’s 400 plus local schools. The system would use tests, truancy, spending measures and other factors to show public how dollars are spent and to avoid blaming districts.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Branstad
William Lepley
Department of Education
Education Departments
Leland Tack
Lepley
Dick Vohs
Tack
Associated Press
Parole boost hits 15 percent in Iowa prisons
Fifteen per cent more paroles were granted in the Iowa fiscal year ending June 30 1988 with 1 765 paroles up from 1 529. Board chair Walter Saur cites efforts to prevent prison overflow and notes monthly parole averages rose by 20. Inmates admitted monthly climbed from 205 to 222 prompting projections of about 2 800 admissions for 1988.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Walter Saur
Iowa Board of Parole
Parole Board
Saur
Board OF Parole
Barbara Binnie
Iowa Department of Corrections
Chuck Lee
Department of Corrections
Lee
Noyce Named CEO of Sematech Joint Computer Project
Grinnell native Robert Noyce has been appointed chief executive of Sematech, a U.S. consortium of computer manufacturers with a budget over 200 million dollars. Noyce, co inventor of the microchip and Grinnell alum, will lead a team including IBM executive Paul Castrucci as COO to accelerate three generations of manufacturing advances in five years. He will leave his Intel vice chair role but stay on its board.
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Grinnell
Robert Noyce
Sematech
U.S
Noyce
Grinnell College
Paul Castrucci
IBM
Grant O. Gale
John Bardeen
Bell Laboratories
Gale
Minnesota lawyers challenge Iowa residency rule
Three Minnesota attorneys argue the Iowa Supreme Court residency requirement to practice law is unconstitutional and sue in U.S. District Court. Plaintiffs Lind say G. Arthur Jr. and John T. Chapman of Minneapolis and Warren Plunkett of Austin seek to overturn the rule. Iowa officials will defend the court.
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Minnesota
Iowa
DES Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
U.S. District Court
Lindsay G. Arthur Jr
John T. Chapman
Minneapolis
Warren Plunkett
Austin
Iowa Attorney General’s Office
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