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Police Believe Toddler Was Likely Not Sexually Abused Before Death: Iowa City Daily News Links, July 9
A quick rundown of local news.
90 degrees seems so mild now.
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Vanessa Miller of the Gazette writes that while investigators initially thought that 20-month-old old Marcus Balderas may have been sexually abused before his death, they now believe this most likely did not occur.
Adam Sullivan of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes about how the Iowa City School District is mulling its options for dealing with its overcrowding problem.
Sullivan also writes about a new ACT tracking test that will measure the gap between what students know and what they need to know for work.
Obama supporters lined up for tickets to see him this week and the tickets are now gone.
Perry Beeman of the Des Moines Register writes that mosquito control efforts in the state are largely ineffective.
The political calling has already begun in earnest. Local Republicans have set up shop in Coralville, writes Josh O'Leary of the Press-Citizen.
A nice article on the surprisingly robust music scene in Fairfield from the Des Moines Register.
The Iowa Secretary of State spoke with an interview with the Associated Press about a foiled plot to frame him.
A state audit revealed that the University of Iowa made more than $600,000 in staff overpayments in the 2010-2011 school year.
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City High Principal John Bacon said the need for more space at his school isn’t urgent. Students who went to Hills Elementary and Lincoln Elementary are set to start going to City, and Bacon said the school has space to accommodate those students.
“I think the type of growth we’re talking about with Lincoln and Hills coming over is just such a natural fit and it will take us up from being under capacity to much closer to what our capacity could be,” Bacon said. “I don’t think those moves are cause for great changes. They will fit nicely into our existing structure.”
Bacon added that the school’s official capacity of 1,600 might be low. In the early 2000s, he said, the school served close to 1,700 students and the building has since gained another 16 classrooms.
“We don’t have open rooms just sitting vacant, but what we do have is quite a few classrooms used five out of seven periods each day,” he said.
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