Cedar Rapids Community Schools adopt 35.8 million budget
Cedar Rapids Community School District approved a 38.8 million fiscal 1976 budget after a public hearing with no objections. The plan allocates 17.9 million from local taxes and relies on state aid, federal grants, and other receipts. The general fund totals 32,773,16 based on 23,365 projected students, with 1,392,795 to the Grant Wond area education agency for services and 1,767,550 for special education.
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Cedar Rapida Community School Board
Ronald Moore
Grant Wond Area Education Agency
Base
Area Education Agency
Special Education
Cedar Rapids school board may excuse athletes from PE
Administrative aide Richard Schulz told the Cedar Rapids Community School Board that a staff proposal would excuse senior high students from one term of physical education while they compete in an athletic program. If approved, students would replace the waived term with an additional course to total the required hours. The board will decide at the February 24 meeting whether to adopt the plan.
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Cedar Rapids
Heavy Defense Stalls Lawyer in High Court Suit
London UPI reports lawyer Basil Ekersley missed the first day of a high court commercial lawsuit due to a strained back from lifting defense documents. In a related note, Berlin admitted Russian troops advanced to within about 90 miles of Dresden years ago.
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UPI
Basil Ekersley
Berlin
Dresden
Group Seeks CIU Unit for Cedar Rapids School Staff
Non teaching workers including maintenance, storekeepers, truck drivers, and bus drivers in the Cedar Rapids Community School District petitioned the Public Employees Relations Board to recognize Local 55 of the Service Employees International Union as the exclusive bargaining agent. The move follows a new state law requiring petitions and an election.
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Service Employes International Union
Public Employe Relations Board
Cedar Rapids Community School Board
Local 55
Mainte
Nance
Cedar Rapids District Seeks 33000 Grant for Counselors
The Cedar Rapida Commun ity school district applies for a $33,000 federal Title IV grant to hire two of three additional elementary guidance counselors for the 1975 76 year. The district would maintain a one counselor per 500 students ratio and promises to retain the counselors for one year after grant expiration.
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Cedar Rapida Community
Tom White
Ex Scouts in New Congress Reach 57 Percent Link
Washington AP report notes 278 former Scouts in the new Congress with 272 former Boy Scouts and six former Girl Scouts. Rep Brown cites Congressional Record research showing 57.7 percent have Scouting ties among 809 of 534 members involved, including 31 former adult leaders.
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Ohio
Slump Links Truck Sales in Detroit Trade Press
DETROIT AP reports truck sales, a key barometer of economic health, have slid into a multi year downturn. February and March are forecast to fall further as car sales slump and dealers cut inventories.
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Detroit
General Motors Truck and Coach Division
General Motors
Muskie wins lake trout prize in Maine derby
Senator Muskie of Maine won top honors in a weekend ice fishing derby on Green Lake Elsworth using smelt as bait. He nailed an 8 pound 3 ounce lake trout to take first prize in the lake trout division, winning a sleeping bag.
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Maine
Senator Muskie
Green Lake
Muskie
Bar Snacks driver charged after wreck near tavern
Tokyo police say Toshio Kurai loaded his delivery truck with snacks to sell in bars, ran a red light, struck a bus, and slammed into a tavern. He faces a drunk driving charge.
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Tokyo
Toshio Kurai
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