Trailside Elementary News Today

A new elementary school is being built in Northeast Cedar Rapids as both arthur and garfield elementary buildings will close at the end of the school year. And

Hundreds of people toured Garfield and Arthur elementary schools in northeast Cedar Rapids Saturday morning. The schools are being retired by the Cedar Rapids Community School District at the end of this academic year, and replaced by Trailside Elementary School.

Park City High School biology teacher Ed Mulick named Sarah & Stephen Doilney Teaching Excellence Award winner — for the fifth time.

A proposed adjustment to special education classes for elementary school students in the Alpine School District has prompted a petition opposing the move. The district is exploring options to better serve their life skills students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The proposal was presented during a board of education meeting in February. The move comes […]

This school year — in response to a proposal from Shelby Cornett, a teacher at Jeremy Ranch Elementary — the school district hired a halftime sustainability coordinator to help implement district-wide programs for Earth-friendly practices across all 12 schools. 

Isolated teachers, small classrooms and electrical problems to no longer ‘impact learning’ under facility plan.

For Hispanic Heritage Month this year, each Spanish class at McPolin Elementary is working to create bulletin boards about a Spanish-speaking country, displayed in the hallways.

Cedar Rapids elementary school is scheduled to close, be demolished and a new school built on the property by fall 2025

The Cedar Rapids school board is expected to approve resolution Thursday ordering a Nov. 7 referendum.

Crews are tearing down a vacant warehouse off First Avenue and 29th Street NE that sustained damage in the 2020 derecho’s hurricane-force winds, but owner Rick Stickle has no immediate plans for repurposing the property.