Substitutes and Teacher Absences Shape District Learning
Superintendent Mick Starcevich notes substitutes fill in for long term absences while Cedar Rapids officials stress careful scheduling of staff development. Iowa requires certified substitutes with renewals tied to teaching days or training, and administrators see absences as potentially beneficial for curriculum planning and math standards updates.
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Mick Starcevich
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Substitute teaching boosts via SEMS system in Cedar Rapids area
The Cedar Rapids area uses SEMS to manage substitute absences with 24 hour call-in. Substitute teachers face jokes and misbehavior but view it as flexible work, earning 75 to 80 dollars a day, more for long-term fills, with no insurance or pension.
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Linn-Mar and
Marion
Sandy Swenson
Swenson
Cedar Rapids
Conrad
U.S. denies North Korea holds American POWs
U.S. military officials dismissed as false a report that up to 10 American POWs remain in North Korea. They noted 8,100 missing from the 1950 53 war with about 200 sets of remains repatriated and no confirmation of survivors.
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Guest speaker contact from The Gazette
The Gazette invites clubs and organizations to arrange speaking engagements by contacting managing editor Mark Bowden at 398-5869.
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I Have a Dream speech and enduring American racial divide
The piece examines King’s dream as a call for an integrated America and notes persistent racial gaps. It quotes Andrew Hacker Earl Walcott Paterson Law and others on assimilation, affirmative action, and the Million Man March, highlighting lingering attitudes and class as factors in racial disparity.
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Martin Luther King Jr
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America
Queens College
N.Y
Andrew Hacker
Congress
New York State
David Paterson
New York Urban League
Dennis Walcott
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Law
125Th Street
Michael Cottman
Jewell Jackson McCabe
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
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