Rony Ortega was selected to become South Sioux City School's new superintendent in December, replacing Todd Strom, who retired after 33 years with the district. He officially started in July.
Students and staff start the new school year Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, at Lewis and Clark Elementary School in South Sioux City, Nebraska. South Sioux City Community Schools held its first day of classes on Thursday for K-6th and 9th grade students. Other students in the district start on Friday.
Three elementary schools in the Omaha Public Schools district have zero special education teachers, so special education students at those schools are being reassigned elsewhere in the district.
The Sioux City Journal asked Rhonda Howley five questions about her experiences working in the food service department at the Sioux City Schools.
The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners on Wednesday found probable cause in the ethics complaint filed by the Sioux City School Board against former superintendent Paul Gausman.
The Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Board of Trustees unanimously accepted Chancellor Sonya Williams’ resignation Tuesday, a year after she started in the role.
SIOUX CITY — Three local teachers gained experiences this summer outside of the classroom through the Iowa STEM Teacher Externships Program.
The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners is expected Wednesday to review the ethics complaint the Sioux City School Board filed against former superintendent Paul Gausman.
Another former Sioux City Schools employee has been selected to serve on the Sioux City School Board. Philip Hamman was selected Monday to fill the vacant Sioux City School Board position. He will serve in the position for less than four months, filling Perla Alarcon-Flory’s seat, until the November election.
An unconfirmed number of students — around 700, sources say — at Palmer College of Chiropractic were hit with ethics violations for allegedly side-stepping mandatory yearly compliance training.
In the Journal's Top Stories Collection for the Week of July 16, 2023: RAGBRAI descends on Sioux City, Siouxland has a state baseball champion, quilts fetch a pretty penny at the Plymouth County Fair, a presidential candidate comes through town and more.
Fourteen individuals have submitted letters of interest for the vacant Sioux City Community School Board of Education position. Here is a brief look at those who submitted.
Community activist Trisha Rivers is running for the Sioux City School Board. Rivers is an enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and works as the Siouxland Project Director for Great Plains Action Society.
West High Graduate and Teacher Marguerite Cortez is running for the Sioux City School Board. Cortez announced on Tuesday she will run for one of the four, four-year terms that will open on the school board this fall, according to a news release.
Monique Scarlett will not run for re-election to her Sioux City School Board seat. Scarlett was elected to the board in November 2019. Her seat is up for election this year.
The Sioux City Schools signed a resignation agreement for former North High Principal Ryan Dumkrieger and reassigned North High Associate Principal Chris Koch on Monday. Both were placed on administrative leave in June.
The Sioux City Career Academy offers middle and high students the opportunity to explore specific career opportunities and build skills to get ahead in the job market.
The Journal recently interviewed students in four different career pathways who received hands-on experience in a unique field to see how the Sioux City Career Academy is preparing them for life after school.
In the Journal's Top Stories for the Week of July 9, 2023: North High principal resigns, West Monona claims first state summer softball bid in decades, a Sioux City park makes its new debut, a roundup of how Siouxland legislators voted on the abortion bill and more.
In the Sioux City Journal's Top Stories for the Week of July 2, 2023: Shelby Houlihan returns to racing, embattled Sioux City nursing home closes, Siouxland Methodist churches split over LGBTQ issues, fair season ramps up, Mike Pence campaigns and more.
Linda Christensen, an alumna of Washington High School, explains why she wanted to keep Washington in the name when the school board proposed changing the name to Cherokee High School. They compromised with her to change the name to Cherokee Washington High School.
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The remaining six Sioux City School Board Members will hold a July 24 hearing for applicants for the appointment. Letters of interest are due to the board secretary and board president Dan Greenwell by July 20. Any applications submitted before Monday are not valid.
The Acklie Charitable Foundation made the gift commitment through the University of Nebraska Foundation as part of its campaign "Only in Nebraska: A Campaign for Our University’s Future."
A new mural has taken shape in Heelan Hall at Briar Cliff, showcasing the university's cornerstone dedication ceremony in 1930.
In an emergency school board meeting Friday morning, the school board decided to rescind a policy -- that would arm teachers -- due to loss of insurance coverage and no viable new insurers.
The home Briar Cliff is purchasing for its new president, named the “Crowley House”, is in honor of faculty member Michael Crowley who died in February. The property will serve as a home as well as an event space for meetings and other gatherings.
OPS is close to finishing an 18-month-long project that plans for the future of all 108 of its buildings. The plan amounts to a projected $2.29 billion in projects.
Today we begin a recurring series that poses five questions to Siouxlanders. Our first answerer: Sioux City Community School District Board Director Perla Alarcon-Flory.
The error was corrected as soon as it was discovered, a spokeswoman with the secretary of state's office said, and new petitions were provided to Support Our Schools Nebraska.