Agassiz Elementary News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

OTTUMWA — The Ottumwa City Council will be holding a public hearing Tuesday regarding the total property tax levy for fiscal year 2025.

“It is really hard to be a Tubman parent right now,” one parent said. “It feels like we’ve been abandoned." Enrollment has dropped substantially.

The Grand Forks School Board will push a scheduled September 27th special election to the spring of 2023. The ...

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is holding public meetings starting this week to discuss possible new names for four elementary schools currently named after men with racist pasts. The schools will likely have new names when children enter the buildings next fall.

Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times When a group of parents embarked on a failed attempt to rename Chicago Public Schools’ Agassiz Elementary three years ago, the pushback was about money and name recognition. Those who opposed a change understood Louis Agassiz was a Swiss American biologist who promoted eugenics, the belief that some characteristics and races are inferior to others and should be bred out of humanity. But many couldn’t look past the approximately $20,000 it would take to change signs and merchandise, or the positive associations with the school’s name that proud parents would los...