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As the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything about educating children, Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Tom Ahart s leadership of Iowa s largest district became deeply controversial.
On Thursday, Ahart, who has led the Des Moines district for nearly a decade, will defend his administrator s license in front of the state s Board of Educational Examiners. Last week, the Des Moines School Board voted to not extend his current employment contract past June 2023.
And Des Moines schools have garnered negative attention from the Iowa Department of Education and the Legislature because school officials began this year online, rather than at least 50% in-person as required by Iowa law at the time.
Two arrested for drug possession
STEUBENVILLE Two men are in custody after police reportedly caught them Monday with large amounts of drugs in their possession, Jefferson County Drug Task Force Capt. John Lemal said.
Lloyd George Douglas Jr., 38, of 821 Oakmont Ave., was charged with one count of felony possession of drugs and one count of weapons under disability after officers caught him with over 500 grams more than a pound of fentanyl in his possession at an unidentified Sunset Boulevard business, Lamal said. Officers also seized more than $15,000 in cash and two firearms when they searched his residence, he added.
Lamal said evidence generated by the search led them to execute a search warrant of another business at the same Sunset Boulevard location. More than 500 grams of methamphetamine, 200 grams of what’s believed to be cocaine, 87 grams of crack and other unidentified substances were seized, he said.