The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners could strip Des Moines Superintendent Tom Ahart of his administrator s license following several complaints about the district s online learning.
The complaints stem from Des Moines school officials decision to keep Des Moines Public Schools more than 31,000 students learning online for the first two weeks of the school year as the coronavirus was ripping through the state.
The complaints were filed with the Board of Educational Examiners against Ahart on Sept. 30 and Oct. 21, the notice of hearing and statement of charges dated Feb. 3 states. The notice does not give details about the complaints.
The educational examiners investigation of the situation, provided to the Des Moines Register, concluded Ahart failed to comply with several Iowa laws by failing to submit and/or implement a lawful return-to-learn plan for the 2020-2021 school year.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. May 31st was an ugly day in Des Moines, Iowa, as hateful mobs of Black Lives Matter extremists smashed and looted their way across Merle Hay Mall. A protest the day before had smashed up the Polk County Courthouse, shattering windows and spraying it with graffiti. Near the mall, small business owners got out their guns and stood outside closed stores.
MADISON (WKOW) - A northern Wisconsin woman alerted authorities to potential misdeeds by Burnett County Assistant District Attorney Daniel Steffen years before Steffen was accused of videotaping sex with women he prosecuted.
Steffen, 50, was charged Friday with three counts of capturing an intimate representation. He will make his initial appearance in Polk County Court Feb. 16.
In August 2019, Steffen was charged in Dane County with misdemeanor attempted theft through false representation.
Authorities say Steffen attended a Wisconsin Department of Justice-sponsored conference in 2018 and submitted forms to be reimbursed for hotel nights. Court records show Steffen initially tried to receive reimbursement for two hotel nights when state rules allowed participants to be reimbursed for only one night. They also show Steffen altered a room reservation and credit card number after Steffen shared a room with Polk County Victim Witness Coordinator Belinda Cash, but both Steffen and C
Event held in conjunction with significantly scaled-back march, due to COVID-19, in Washington, D.C. Written By: Pamela D. Knudson | 4:34 pm, Jan. 23, 2021 ×
Joseph Vandal, left, and Nathan Walski, holding the U.S. flag, prepare to begin the March for Life on Saturday, Jan. 23, in Crookston. Pamela Knudson / Grand Forks Herald
Marie Kraemer, 18, is glad to be alive and, for her, the annual March for Life, to commemorate lives lost to abortion, is personal.
“I was born in China during the time of the one-child policy,” said Kraemer, who helped organize the march on Saturday, Jan. 23, in Crookston. “I could have been someone who could’ve been aborted, so (the march) means a lot to me.”