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Columbia Board of Education narrows superintendent search; 3 candidates announced Columbia Board of Education The Columbia Board of Education is holding a virtual forum with candidates for the next CPS superintendent. Dr. Erick Pruitt, left, Dr. Chace Ramey, center, Dr. Brian Harold Yearwood, right. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education announced its shortlist of superintendent candidates Monday. A release sent out before noon said the board of education has narrowed the search to three candidates. The board hopes to have a new superintendent selected by the end of the month. M...

The Columbia school district on Monday released the names of three finalists to become its next superintendent when Peter Stiepleman leaves.

Iowa City schools completed the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations for 2,000 teachers and staff Friday, and Cedar Rapids schools will complete the first round of vaccinations by the end of next week after months of uncertainty during the coronavirus pandemic. COVID vaccinations for K-12 teachers, school staff and child care workers in Iowa began Feb. 1, under the state’s Phase 1B. School nurses began receiving the vaccine at the end of January during Phase 1A, which prioritized health care workers. Cedar Rapids Superintendent Noreen Bush said getting teachers and school staff vaccinated ...

Des Moines Register To be first in line to get vaccinations from their school district, staff in the Iowa City Community School District must be 50 or older and spend at least half the day at a school building. In the Ames Community School District, teachers with medical conditions went to the front of the line. In the Waukee Community School District, it's first come, first served. School employees have been eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Iowa since Feb. 1, when Phase 1B began in Iowa. But who gets the first doses of the scarce and sought-after vaccine — and why they get to...

IOWA CITY — The Iowa City school board is celebrating news that staff in the district will begin receiving the COVID-19 vaccine this week, while warning getting everyone vaccinated will be a long process. “It’s obviously slow going. That’s a theme we’ve heard from Johnson County Public Health and the state, but we also think this is fantastic news,” Iowa City schools chief operating officer Chace Ramey said during a school board meeting Tuesday. Distributing vaccines is a “fluid situation,” Superintendent Matt Degner said. The district is moving forward as “aggressively�...