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More details will come in the weeks and months ahead about how Ames plans to address pandemic-driven learning loss, but the district is already hiring a learning recovery director.
Risner and the school board reached an agreement whereby she would resign at the end of the current fiscal year, June 30, 2021.
The Ames Community School District is accepting the resignation of superintendent Jenny Risner.
A recording of the conversation, moderated by Iowa-Nebraska NAACP president Betty Andrews, is available on the Ames NAACP Facebook page.
Representatives of AYSAT and another local activist group called last month for the immediate removal of SROs from the district's schools and a review of classroom discipline procedures, based upon data from this year, and while the district will take more time than that in looking at the issue, action of some kind is coming in the months ahead. Task force to look at how SROs should be used in Ames, before board decision on whether to have them at all It currently costs Ames CSD and the city $241,512 a year for two officers to patrol schools. Ames Superintendent Jenny Risner said Monday tha...