Iowa Senate debates teacher pay amid calls to drop hike
As the 2001 session opens the Senate discusses a performance based teacher pay plan. Iowa educators groups urge lawmakers to drop the pay hike while budget cuts threaten new teachers. Governor Vilsack insists Iowa must fund both pay and class size and tech initiatives.
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Metro teachers dodge layoffs in Cedar Rapids Iowa City
Most Cedar Rapids metro and Iowa City teachers evaded layoffs this year as districts used resignations and retirements to cover budget cuts. Cedar Rapids reduced force notices to five point seven full-time equivalents while planning to hire about one hundred teachers annually to replace retirees and vacancies.
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Cedar Rapids considers smoking ban for cabs and uniform license rules
City officials push a smoking ban in cabs and limousines to reduce smoke transfer to passengers clothes and improve first impressions for visitors. Proposals would unify cab licensing across Cedar Rapids Marion and Hiawatha and require cab companies to use uniform colors with a passenger alert sticker. Cab drivers express mixed views while some vow to enforce no smoking if enacted.
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Woman Survives 5 Days After Wreck Near Des Moines
Lindsay Thomas, 35, from Clive to a construction site in Waverly, survived five days trapped in a car after missing exits on Highway 3. Found by highway workers Steve Snow and Arlen Olson, she was cold but conscious, saying she stayed awake with a blanket and hoped for help. Her father Dean Thomas and mother Jean Thomas praised responders and the road crew for locating her. She worked at Olive Garden in West Des Moines.
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