The DJ. The decorations. After prom.
It's no secret that prom costs a lot of money. There are many ways that classes raise money for the special night. Some of these fundraisers include selling donuts...
The Cedar Rapids Community School District is trying to discover new ways to improve students' learning. One way the district has come up with is standard based grading.
Standard based grading is a...
Kennedy’s Large Group Speech students filed into a bus headed to their district competition in Monticello early in the morning on Saturday, January 24. This year’s competition, as every year does,...
President Barack Obama addressed the American people and expressed his ideas for improving the nation in this year’s State of the Union speech Tuesday January, 20.
“The shadow of crisis has passed,...
Many changes are being made school district wide for the school year of 2015-16. Last night, members of the staff came together with a presentation going over all of the changes being made and presented...
Kennedy’s Penny Wars fundraiser is off to a great start! It began Monday, January 19 and will continue through Friday, January 30. Last year Kennedy raised about $10,000, and this year we hope to...
The 29th Annual “Remembering Martin” Luncheon was held on Monday, Jan. 19 at the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Cedar Rapids.
Each middle school and high school in the Cedar Rapids area are asked...
A new trampoline park is opening in Cedar Rapids called Sky Zone. It was recently completed and is open to the public starting today, Jan 16.
Sky Zone has a SkySlam court, Ultimate Dodgeball and even...
Some students wonder if and when they are going to have to make up snow days and two hour delays that will plague this winter.
The new state law set in by the Cedar Rapids School District is now that...
Save a life and donate blood.
For many years Kennedy High School and Xavier High School students have participated in the Battle of 42nd Street Blood Drive.
Although the drive to collect blood itself...
President Obama repeatedly makes history. Not only is he the first African-American president and the first president to openly support gay marriage, but he can now add another first to his many historic...
On July 1, 2014 all Iowa school districts had the option to choose to go by hours rather than days. The rule before this change was that all school districts had to go to school for 180 days throughout...
