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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1996
Page
7
Jerry Elsen serves as Editor of Editorial Pages while Mark Bowden is named Editorial Board Chairman and Managing Editor in the masthead.
The Cedar Rapids school system spends about $15 million of its near $100 million operating fund on special education which now accounts for 12 percent of enrollment. Officials note rising numbers of learning disabled and behaviorally challenging students, with funding weights up to 3.54 times regular costs for small high-need groups.
After nearly three months the Freemen standoff ends without deaths. FBI praised for restraint as fears of more violence linger with the approaching millennium and potential copycat incidents. Children in the compound highlighted the human cost of extremism and lawbreaking.
The author argues father absence drives social ills and urges seven concrete state actions. Campaigns to raise awareness, welfare reform to encourage two parent families, divorce-law tweaks, joint custody presumptions, stronger child support and visitation enforcement, prison family programs, and father friendly workplace practices are outlined with examples like Center for Responsible Fatherhood in Cleveland and Boot Camp for New Dads in Irvine.
The Gazette launches a third annual In the Neighborhood project with seven Cedar Rapids areas and one each in Marion Hiawatha and Robins. Reporters photographers and editors will spotlight community identity during Thursday events from June 20 to Aug 29.
A sequence of backyard and public site meetups lists dates from July 11 to August 29 at Marion High School Robins City Park Summit View Park Saint Jude's Church Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church Seton Church Noelridge Park Bever Park. Each entry notes a rain location such as the high school lunchroom Robins Community Center community building parish room church hall church hall lagoon pavilion and main pavilion.
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