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Cedar Rapids teachers to get 3 percent wage increase
The Gazette· 3 days agoTeachers in the Cedar Rapids Community School District will see a 3 percent base wage increase for the 2024-25 < ...
A community says goodbye to Arthur, Garfield elementary schools
The Gazette· 5 days agoVeteran elementary school teacher Nancy Raue was like a Disney princess. Just about everyone stopped...
Inside a rural Iowa school district’s fight to save public education
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWhen Kevin Hosbond was teaching English and coaching speech in the rural southeast Iowa school ...
Iowa’s graduation rates have been incorrectly calculated for the last 10 years
Quad-City Times· 6 days agoIowa’s four-year high school graduation rate has been reported higher than the actual rate for the last decade because of an error in the calculation code...Iowa Department ...
Government Notes: C.R. ‘Dragon’ building redevelopment receives $2.17M boost
The Gazette· 3 days agoThe three-story brick building at 329 Second Ave. SE is where the Dragon Restaurant — long Cedar...
Opinion: You never stop being a teacher
The Gazette· 4 days agoRecently, while at my senior daughter’s high school tennis meet, I ran into my own high school English teacher. Opinion content represents the viewpoint...
Amy Neel
The Gazette· 15 hours agoAmy Neel, 47, of Cedar Rapids, passed away on May 5, 2024. Amy was born in Cedar Rapids to Daniel Neel and Priscilla Sackett on May 21, 1976. Following...
Gazette Daily News Podcast: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The Gazette· 2 days agoIowa universities propose tuition increases for next year; Highlights from Iowa Republicans’ state convention
Cedar Rapids Public Library set to host ‘Summer Reading Challenge’
KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids· 2 days agoThe annual challenge, which is designed to help encourage reading, will offer free books and prizes...
Wuzzles creator Tom Underwood is retiring
The Gazette· 5 days agoTom Ecker, known to his fans as Tom Underwood, is retiring from creating Wuzzles, a puzzle that was first published in The Gazette in 1982 before growing...