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Cedar Rapids district highlights McKinley medical lab, groundbreakings and Nov. 4 bond referendum
Summary
In a district podcast, Cedar Rapids Community School District leaders announced the opening of a medical lab at McKinley STEAM Academy, recent and upcoming school groundbreakings and said a Nov. 4 bond referendum, combined with PEPL and safe funds, would fund further projects if approved.
Cedar Rapids Community School District leaders used the district podcast this week to highlight a new medical lab at McKinley STEAM Academy, recent groundbreakings at Harrison Elementary and planned projects at Hoover and Van Buren — and to remind residents that a bond referendum will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot.
The lab and groundbreakings matter because they are part of the district's 2040 facilities vision to update aging buildings and create modern learning spaces, the hosts said. "This is so much more than a classroom," Isabelle, a podcast co-host, said of the McKinley medical lab, describing students putting on "white coats, practicing real world medical skills."
District Superintendent Dr. Tawana Grover was the source of the project updates noted in the episode,…
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