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Self-less nine-year-old girl from Collier Row, Romford, Laila, has raised thousands of pounds for the Little Princess Trust by cutting off her hair.

Soho plays host to the Steinway-2 Piano Festival

Soho plays host to the Steinway-2 Piano Festival

A group of Latino volunteers in central Iowa spent a year gathering data and stories from their communities to offer a resource for the state. The initiative has bigger future plans.

An Iowa administrative law judge said Thursday that Des Moines superintendent Tom Ahart violated his ethical duty by keeping kids out of school last fall when Iowa was struggling with keeping the coronavirus contained.  "I concluded the record supported a finding that Dr. Ahart had violated an ethical duty to comply with all laws applicable to the fulfillment of this professional obligations as alleged" Administrative Law Judge David Lindgren said during an Iowas Board of Educational Examine...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The leader of Iowa’s largest school district violated his...

As the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything about educating children, Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Tom Aharts leadership of Iowas largest district became deeply controversial. On Thursday, Ahart, who has led the Des Moines district for nearly a decade, will defend his administrators license in front of the states Board of Educational Examiners. Last week, the Des Moines School Board voted to not extend his current employment contract past June 2023. And Des Moines schools have ga...

AP Ahart has been at odds with state officials over the district’s decision to stick with remote learning at the start of the school year. The board of Iowa’s largest school district narrowly decided not to extend the contract of its embattled superintendent beyond June 2023. The Des Moines school board voted 4-3 Thursday not to extend the contract of Superintendent Tom Ahart, who has been at odds with state officials over the district’s decision to stick with remote learning at the start...

May 16, 2021 GMT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The board of Iowa’s largest school district narrowly decided not to retain its embattled superintendent beyond June. The Des Moines school board voted 4-3 Thursday not to extend the contract of Superintendent Tom Ahart, who has been at odds with state officials over the district’s decision to stick with remote learning at the start of the school year. At the time, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds had ordered all schools to provide at least half of their inst...

The Des Moines School Board voted 4-3 to not extend embattled Superintendent Tom Aharts current contract past June 30, 2023, during Thursday nights meeting.  The school board met virtually in closed session Thursday to discuss Aharts contract. The meeting had originally been posted as the contract being only a discussion item but the agenda was changed Wednesday night to include a vote. "Motion was made to accept the recommendation from the compensation committee for a 2-year contract f...