Private funding shifts Iowa public schools toward donations
California transplant John Gianola visits Longfellow Elementary noting full-time staff and musical instruments funded by private gifts. In Davis schools PTA groups raise about 70000 yearly to cover art music and other salaries, highlighting a widening gap as state funding remains flat. districts weigh closures cuts and textbook reuse amid private partnerships and public concern over quasi public status.
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Giveback programs aid schools via consumer purchases
Companies offer school funding through programs like Target Take Charge of Education and Box Tops for Education. Target gives 1 percent of purchases on its credit card to the cardholder’s school of choice, while Box Tops provides cash to schools based on redeemed symbols from participating products.
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Cedar Rapids
Iuwa City
Aonear
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Target giving favors wealthier Cedar Rapids schools
A Gazette analysis shows national corporate givebacks exceed 100000 for local schools last year but favor wealthier students. Target has donated 324 million nationwide since 1997 and Cedar Rapids schools have received over 390000 from RED Card purchases. In Cedar Rapids, 12 wealthier schools captured 63 percent of elementary grants, while 12 lower income schools got 37 percent. Coolidge Elementary, with 20 percent free lunch eligibility, received 20016 since 1997, more than triple Polk Elementary’s 5914 with nearly 90 percent eligibility. In Linn-Mar, the three lowest
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Target
Cedar Rapids
Coolidge Elementary
Polk Elementary
Linn-Mar
Black Americans dispute label African American
The Associated Press reports a split over the term African American as some blacks in the United States prefer the simple descriptor black. Shawn Smith of Houston says he feels American, not African American, noting his family’s roots in Mississippi and North Carolina. Gibre George of Miami started a Facebook page opposing the label, arguing it distances current generations from African heritage while acknowledging it’s still a part of identity for some.
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Mississippi
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Macomb Counts
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Gibre George
Miami
George
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