Cedar Rapids mother of teens killed in texting-while-driving crash was emotional mess at driver s parole hearing
Keith Furne was texting while driving, served two years in prison
Keith Furne is taken into custody following a sentencing hearing at the Linn County District Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Monday, June 4, 2018. Furne will serve two sentences of ten years and one sentence of five years in prison for his role in the deaths of two minors while he was texting and driving on County Home Road in 2016. The sentences will run concurrently. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Attorney Alfred Willett (center) talks with Keith Furne at a sentencing hearing for Furne of Cedar Rapids at the Linn County District Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Monday, June 4, 2018. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
With more students returning to classrooms this month under a new state law requiring that option, some Eastern Iowa school leaders say they are concerned about maintaining social distancing in class raising fears of increased exposure to COVID-19.
In the Iowa City Community School District, students have had the choice of either hybrid learning attending in-person in either A or B days and attending online on the opposite days or online learning.
But with less room for social distancing as more students return, Iowa City schools Superintendent Matt Degner is among those concerned the district will see an influx in the number of both students and staff having to quarantine.
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Over the strenuous objections of Democrats and teachers groups, Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate are moving quickly to approve a pair of proposals they argue will give parents more choice in their children s education.
The proposals, one that would require school districts to offer a fully in-person learning option during the pandemic and another that would give students state money to spend on private education, sped through the subcommittee and committee process Monday.
The final House and Senate floor votes on the in-person learning bills could come in both chambers within the next week. A version of the proposal cleared the Senate Education Committee on Monday and the House version will receive a committee vote on Tuesday.
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Over the strenuous objections of Democrats and teachers groups, Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate are moving quickly to approve a pair of proposals they argue will give parents more choice in their children s education.
The proposals, one that would require school districts to offer a fully in-person learning option during the pandemic and another that would give students state money to spend on private education, sped through the subcommittee and committee process Monday.
The Iowa Senate could debate both school bills as soon as this week.
Bills that would require in-person learning and create a system to direct public funding to private schools are moving to the Iowa Senate floor where votes could happen later this week.
The Iowa House and Senate are advancing bills that would help Gov. Kim Reynolds accomplish her priorities for education for the 2021 legislative session.
A bill advancing to the full Senate (SF 160) would mandate that schools offer a fully in-person learning option, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. A similar proposal (HF 103) passed out of a House subcommittee Monday.