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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1978
Page
7
The Cedar Rapids Community School Board heard a proposal to replace letter grades with E S N ratings for grades one to three while fifth and sixth grades would keep A B C D F. The plan also adds reading level tracking and separate art music and PE evaluations, with updates to kindergarten checklists.
Cedar Rapids school officials report full compliance with state desegregation requirements across all levels. The district highlights minority enrollments below the 24.5 percent limit at Tyler and Johnson Elementary Schools and notes opt-in and opt-out programs shaping demographics.
Cedar Rapids School Board voted to lease Eisenhower Elementary for next year and keep Noelridge as a site for Kennedy High School Work Study Laboratory. The board approved closing Eisenhower as an attendance center at year end. An appeal by Eisenhower parents to the state DPI is scheduled.
Cedar Rapids Community School Board authorized an out of court settlement awarding 22,474.31 in back wages to 14 custodial workers. The federal suit, filed April 2, 1974 by the Department of Labor, covered January 1974 to November 1, 1975, and found wage discrimination against 11 women and 3 men.
The Cedar Rapids Community School Board approved new contracts for three meet and confer groups for 1978-79. Operators will gain 7 percent, teacher associates 6.8 percent, and transportation staff 13.7 percent, with updated hourly and route pay scales and continued hospitalization and physical exam allowances.
A petition with 89 signatures from transportation workers protests the hiring of Joseph Raider as Cedar Rapids school district transportation director. The petition condemns the appointment of Raider, a Boston manager, as unjustified and unwarranted.
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