Cedar Rapids PACT struggles with underrepresentation of Black students
Cedar Rapids district aims to diversify its gifted PACT program amid racial gaps. Black students make up about 8 percent of PACT, far below the district's 16 percent Black student share, while nationwide trends show similar disparities. Officials seek broader outreach and revised testing to include more African American and minority students.
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Cedar Rapids Community School
PACT
Sandrine
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Department of Education
Education Department
Iowa
Chad Hageman
Department of Education Office of Civil Rights
Hageman
Rama Muzo
Muzo
Roger Martinez
Roger
Jill Koch
Hoover
Viola Gibson
Koch
Kinze plant line shows lean manufacturing amid soft farm equipment demand
Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg Iowa presses ahead with lean lines and just in time steel sourcing as soft commodity prices shrink demand for planters. The 3600 six to twelve week steel supply cycle relies on Steel Warehouse and mills to provide customized coils and plates while investments in laser cutting robotics boost productivity and reduce downtime.
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Reeves
Kinze
Williamsburg
Iowa
Jon Kinzenbaw
Victor
Kinzenbaw
Interstate 80
Kinze Innovation Center
Lithuania
DuPont Pioneer
Deere
Caterpillar
Iowa State University Extension Office
Richard Dix
Mesabi Tron
Minnesota
Michigan
Utah
Alabama
China
Australia
Canada
Turkey
ArcelorMittal
Burns Harbor
Ind
U.S. Steel
Steel Warehouse
South Bend
Maruichi Leavitt Pipe & Tube
Chicago
Steel
Randy Parsons
Dix
the Gazette
Eric Sanders
Montezuma
Tomor
Mike Buswell
Value Stream
Buswell
Chris van Patten
Oskaloosa
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