Test score gains for College Community low income students
The Iowa Test of Basic Skills shows fourth graders in College Community District with improved reading and math scores among low income students. Proficiency shifts: math not proficient down from 49 to 35.3 percent. reading not proficient down from 56.9 to 28.8 percent. Highly proficient in math up to 15.7 percent. reading up to 17.3 percent. State and national percentiles show district gains, with 55th statewide and 69th national in reading for fourth graders, and 58th statewide and 70th national in math. Eighth and eleventh graders also show mixed gains.
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Janet Borholm
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
College
al Rowe
Iowa
College Community Tackles Math Scores Districtwide
College Community officials push focused math instruction after mixed test results. Fourth graders show little progress in math computation while eighth graders improve. district targets October 2001 testing to lift fourth grade scores toward a 4.2 grade equivalency.
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The
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
College Community
al Rowe
College
Land
Solon teen in Cedar Rapids facility after school threat
Brian Scott Vincent, 15, is attending high school at Tanager Place in Cedar Rapids, a child psychiatry facility, with progress toward possible discharge to his parents by July. A 90 day report will follow. the case began with a terrorism charge for claiming he would shoot classmates who teased him.
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Solon
C.R
Brian Scott Vincent
Tanager Place
Cedar Rapids
Vincent
Johnson County
Jo McCarty
Davis Foster
Sixth Judicial District
Stephen Gerard II
Gerard
News Track contact details and newsroom note
Erin Jordan News Track follows up on newsmakers and events with upcoming Monday segments. For questions reach The Gazette newsroom at Cedar Rapids Iowa with postal, phone, or email contacts provided.
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the Gazette
P.O. Box
Cedar Rapids
Metro-Iowa
Terry Coyle
Terrycafyiowa.com
Publisher to discuss black newspaper in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids library hosts Jonathon Narcisse, publisher of the oldest black owned and operated paper west of the Mississippi. The free 90 minute program at 6 30 p m Tuesday on the second floor explains the Des Moines based paper’s origin as a training ground for Black journalists. Call (319) 398 5123 for more information.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Jonathon Narcisse
Mississippi
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Narcisse
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