Two College Community elementaries submit improvement plan
Cedar Rapids Gazette reports Prairie View and Prairie Heights in the College Community School District will intensify reading improvement under the new Blueprint for Success. Prairie Crest shows higher reading scores while Prairie View and Heights lag, with districtwide literacy emphasis and extended programs amid campus construction.
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Prairie View
Prairie Heights
Rowe
History Center director resigns after four years in Cedar Rapids
Linda Langston 47 resigns as executive director of the History Center effective November 1. She helped move the center to 601 First Ave SE and will be succeeded by chief curator Marise McDermott as acting director October 1. Langston notes no conflict and plans no immediate future arrangements.
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Linda Langston
Langston
History Center
Eighth Avenue SE
First Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids
Marise McDermott
Cedar Rapids school bus complaints prompt review
The College Community school board will task its quality control council to study possible changes to the bus schedule after parents Maggie and Curtis Thomas claimed the district violates state law by overlong rides and overcrowding. Transportation director Mike Raw cited road work and driver shortages. finance chief Kris Ruprecht noted no mileage limit is imposed. The board also kept Sandy Flatgard as president and Ruprecht as vice president, accepted Mary Ann Peters resignation, and will fill Peters and Schlueter seats in upcoming meetings.
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Janet Borholm
Cedar Rapids
The
College Community School Board
Quality Control Council
Maggie
Curtis Thomas
Maggie Thomas
Mike Raw
Jim Steffen
Kris Ruprecht
Bob Schlueter
Rolling Green
Maquoketa teen faces possible adult trial in burn case
Jackson County seeks to try 15 year old Tara Tallman as an adult in the dousing and burning of 12 year old Amanda O'Meara. Bodenhofer 12 remains in juvenile custody. prosecutor cites age 14 as threshold for adult prosecution.
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Maquoketa
Jackson County
Tara Tallman
Lynette Bodenhofer
Amanda O'Meara
O'Meara
Tallman
O’meara
John Kies
Bodenhofer
Brian Bopes
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