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Report finds racial disparities in Iowa prisons continue to rank among the highest in the nation - Vimarsana News

Report finds racial disparities in Iowa prisons continue to rank among the highest in the nation

The racial disparities in Iowa's state prisons continue to rank among the highest in the country. According to The Sentencing Project, the state’s Black to white prison ratio has decreased somewhat in recent years, but it’s still among the 10 worst in the nation.

Ames Community School District to decide on school resource officers - Vimarsana News

Ames Community School District to decide on school resource officers

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...

Analysis: What records show about police in Ames schools - Vimarsana News

Analysis: What records show about police in Ames schools

Ames Tribune After two girls allegedly got into a fight in the Ames Middle School restroom, an associate principal reported the incident to the school resource officer. The officer referred the 11-year-old and 12-year-old students to juvenile court for disorderly conduct, a simple misdemeanor. That same month, November 2018, Ames High School staff saw a 16-year-old boy walk out of a bathroom that purportedly smelled of marijuana. A series of resulting verbal confrontations ended with the student being escorted out of the building and charged with disorderly conduct for "loud and raucous n...

Black Lives Matter at School: Ames leaders defend week to Iowa lawmakers - Vimarsana News

Black Lives Matter at School: Ames leaders defend week to Iowa lawmakers

Ames Tribune An Iowa lawmaker on Tuesday called Ames' Black Lives Matter at School week an abuse of power and misuse of resources, while district leaders defended the importance of affirming diverse identities in the classroom. The district kicked off Black History Month on Feb. 1 with the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, during which teachers engaged students with a set of 13 guiding principles through free resources from outside organizations. Stated goals for the week included to affirm students' diverse Black identities, offer them a sense of belonging they might not other...

Ames schools' Black Lives Matter week to be subject of Iowa Legislature hearing - Vimarsana News

Ames schools' Black Lives Matter week to be subject of Iowa Legislature hearing

An Iowa House of Representatives committee wants to hear from Ames Community School District officials how classroom materials were prepared for the district's recent Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action.