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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 of the school year. At the time, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds had ordered all schools to provide at least half of their instruction in person despite the coronavirus pandemic unless virus cases were at a high level in the area around a district.
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 instruction in person despite the coronavirus pandemic unless virus cases were at a high level in the area around a district.
The Des Moines School Board voted 4-3 to not extend embattled Superintendent Tom Ahart s current contract past June 30, 2023, during Thursday night s meeting.
The school board met virtually in closed session Thursday to discuss Ahart s 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 for the superintendent through June 30, 2023, with no change in compensation or benefits, said Phil Roeder, district spokesman, in an email.
Board Chair Dwana Bradley and board members Teree Caldwell-Johnson, Kelli Soyer, and Kim Martorano voted not to extend Ahart s contract.
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In a case that began with a teenager s Snapchat rant against her cheerleading squad, the Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether and when a school can punish students for what they say online when they aren t in school. We hope that the court will say: very rarely.
In 2017 a student known in court filings as B.L. was upset when she failed to make the varsity cheerleading team at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania. While hanging out with a friend at a local store, she took a photo of herself and her friend raising their middle fingers and posted it on Snapchat. Accompanying the photo was this message: F school, F softball, F cheer, F everything.