Caroline Mascardo, Editorials Editor and Copy Editor
• October 16, 2020
May 31: Celebrating Graduates
Although the 2020 school year came to an unprecedented end, graduating students found alternative ways to celebrate together. Two student car parades were held in Iowa City...
Ella De Young, Print Managing Editor
• October 13, 2020
It has been 10 years. 10 years since she made the decision to journey 6,000 miles away from Ghana, the only home she had ever known, to Iowa City. She is now a two-time law school graduate and the newest...
Maggie Huang, Online News Editor
• October 4, 2020
The Iowa City School board discussed plans on providing teachers with additional training regarding implicit bias and cultural responsiveness during their meeting Tuesday night. This training would be...
Trees crash down as the forceful winds blow debris into the streets. The thunder booms, and the rain falls like shards of glass. Many stay indoors, but the power of the storm may be too strong for the...
It wasn’t the first day of school.
However, students were seen in the classroom for the first time during the 2020-21 school year.
The ICCSD announced the transition into the hybrid model last...
Sachiko Goto, Design Editor, Photographer
• September 26, 2020
The Iowa City South District Neighborhood Association collaborated with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, League of Women Voters, Parkview East Campus, ACLU and Johnson Country Interfaith Coalition...
With the Johnson County positivity rate dropping to 8.2% as of Sept. 18, the ICCSD announced that the hybrid learning model will begin on Monday, Sept. 28. Additionally, the district has been granted permission...
Maggie Huang, Online News Editor
• September 15, 2020
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of the approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Between the three high schools in the district,...
Hanah Kitamoto, Print Co-Editor-In-Chief
• September 11, 2020
With a 14 day positivity rate of 20.4% as of Sept. 9, the ICCSD was granted permission by the Iowa Department of Public Health to continue the fully online model on Sept. 10.
In a board meeting on Sept....
Kailey Gee, Print Co-Editor-In-Chief
• September 8, 2020
With COVID-19 positivity rates at 22.2%, the ICCSD school board has decided to request another waiver from the Department of Education to continue teaching students enrolled in the hybrid learning model...
Hanah Kitamoto, Print Co-Editor-In-Chief
• August 29, 2020
The school board accepted the waiver granted by the Iowa Department of Education to start the school year fully online in a school board meeting held on Aug. 29. The start of school date will still be...
