Education ACT gains elusive for low income teens
ACT Inc and the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships report 434000 low income students in the class of 2014 took the ACT with English English 45 percent Reading 26 Math 23 Science 18 and Overall four subject 11 percent, unchanged from 2013 in most benchmarks. Higher income students fared better. the gap persists. experts urge four years English and three years each of math social studies and science to boost readiness. University access remains uneven nationwide.
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Cedar Rapids burglar freed days before second arrest
Kwame Young, 34, convicted of burglary and placed on three years probation after a July 13 sentencing, was jailed on a new second degree burglary and interference with officials acts charge filed Monday in Linn County District Court. Police say he fled a B Avenue NE home after a kitchen window was left open and resisted arrest. Bail set at 25000.
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Bomb threat prompts evacuation at Iowa fertilizer plant site
Hundreds of workers were told to leave the Orascom Iowa Fertilizer Co site in Lee County after a bomb threat was found Monday in a portable toilet. Bomb-sniffing dogs and up to 36 security staff searched the grounds. no incendiary devices were located, and inspections of vehicles yielded nothing suspicious.
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