Iowa City Community School District

Publications Currently in Hard Copy Only

May 7, 1999


Note:  Since preparing this page in October 1998, the Central Administration Office has prepared a bibliography of hard copy reports from July 1996 through the Spring of 1999. I have put that bibliography into HTML format and posted it here on May 7, 1999; just click on School Board Reports. There will, therefore, be some duplication between what exists there and what I initially posted here. However, I am continuing to make this original page available because there are a number of documents listed here which is not included in the "School Board Reports" list.

The purpose of these listings is at least two-fold: (1) to provide a research aide to anyone who is looking for information that one or another of these reports may contain, and (2) to provide the appearance, as well as the reality, of a policy of openness by the Board and Administration -- even to those who do not, in fact, care to examine the documents themselves. We offer the opportunity to anyone who cares to find out what is going on with the public money, and children's lives and education, for which we are responsible. We believe that is, in itself, an important message.

The text that follows is what was posted here in October 1998:

"There are numerous documents around the Central Administrative Office which are "public documents" available for inspection by any member of the public.  Many are also made available at the Iowa City Public Library and in the schools' media centers.  This is not represented to be a complete list.  Additional titles will be added as they are discovered over time.  No significant document has been deliberately omitted, but all are not now known.  Many documents are available at the Central Administrative Office as documents and papers accompanying minutes of School Board meetings. Obviously, there are also a significant number of single-page memos and reports that would, presumably, be public documents but are of such limited usefulness as to not be worth listing.  And there are some which are not public, such as personnel and medical records.  As time permits, District personnel, and Nicholas Johnson personally, will endeavor to upload as many as possible of these documents to the Web."

--N.J. October 2, 1998; updated December 18, 1998, May 7, 1999

ICCSD Policy-Related Documents

Iowa City Community School District Special Education (an undated apparent Board agenda item, as one-page cover on "ICCSD Special Education" report)

Marian Coleman, Equity Report 1997-98 (Nov. 24, 1998)

Cathy Deschenes and Pamela Ehly, Self Study of Special Education (Oct. 1998)

Pam Ehly, Iowa City Community School District, 1997-1998 School Year Annual Report [280:12-280:18 Reports submitted to Iowa Department of Education]

Ann Feldmann, Iowa City Community School District Staff Employment and Deployment 1997-98 (Oct. 24, 1997)

Grant Wood Area Education Agency 10, Ghan Consulting, Inc., Helvick Consulting, Administrative Study Complete Report: Iowa City Community School District (Oct. 20, 1998)

Greenwood and Crim, Iowa City Community School District Independent Auditor's Reports, Financial Statements and Supplemental information, Findings and Questioned Costs (June 30, 1998)

Greenwood and Crim, Iowa City Community School District Independent Auditors' Reports, Financial Statements and Supplemental Information, Comments and Recommendations (June 30, 1997)

Timothy Greives, Iowa City Community Schools 1998-99 Enrollment Report (Oct. 13, 1998)

Timothy S. Grieves, Iowa City Community Schools 1997-98 Enrollment Report (Oct. 14, 1997)

Iowa City Community School District, 1997-8 Certified Annual Report (Sept. 10, 1998) (annual financial information submitted to the State Department of Education)

Iowa City Community School District, Elementary Instructional Program (Sept. 1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Multicultural/Nonsexist Education Plan 1997-2002 (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Senior High School Educational Options (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Standardized Test Report (Fall 1997)

Iowa City Community School District, Strategic Plan Report to the Board of Directors (March 1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Strategy Two Committee Report to the Iowa City Community School District Board of Education (Oct. 14, 1997)

Iowa City Community School District, Student Learning Goals, Standards: Content & Performance, Benchmarks (Fall 1998)

Iowa City Community School District Technology Plan, Teaching, Learning and Technology: Creating a Community of Life-Long Learners (Feb. 1997)

National Computer Systems, Six Things You Should Know About Iowa School Finances (1998) (a joint project with the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce and the Iowa City Community School District)

Gerard Rushton, Jayajit Chakraborty, Amy J. Ruggles and Matthew S. Airola, Demographic Report for the Iowa City Community School District:  Projections by Grade for School District 1998-2002 and for Individual Schools for 1998-2002 (Iowa City: University of Iowa, Department of Geography, Dec. 8, 1997)

Joan Vanden Berg, At-Risk & Substance Abuse Prevention Program 1997-98 (Oct. 1998)
 
 

Materials for Parents and Students

Note:  If you do not see materials related to your school here, inquire at your school's main office.  These are simply those that happen to have come to me.  -- N.J.

Iowa City Community School District, Welcome! ["general information, phone numbers, communication with the district, school descriptions, curriculum descriptions"] (Fall 1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Elementary Handbook 1998-99

Iowa City Community School District, Iowa City Community School District Senior High Alternative Center 1998-99 Parent/Student Handbook (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, City High School Student Handbook (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Irving B. Weber Elementary School Directory (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Irving B. Weber Elementary School Improvement Plan (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Irving B. Weber Elementary School 1998-9 Parent Handbook (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, 1998-99 Student-Parent Handbook, Northwest Junior High School (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, Northwest Junior High Course Guide, 1998-1999 (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, South East Junior High School Student/Parent Handbook (1998)

Iowa City Community School, South East Junior High Course Guide (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, 1998-9 West High School Parent/Athlete Manual (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, West High School 1998-9 Parent/Student Handbook (1998)

Iowa City Community School District, West High School 1998-9 Program of Studies (1998)
 
 

Materials Related to Negotiations and Employee Contracts

Iowa Urban Education Network, UEN Schools 1997-98 Salary Comparison

Negotiated Agreement between the Association of Iowa City School Year Secretaries and the Iowa City Community School District Board of Directors, July 1, 1998 through June 30, 2000

Negotiated Agreement between the Iowa City Education Association and the Iowa City Community School District Board of Directors, July 1, 1997-June 30, 1998

Negotiated Agreement between the Iowa City Education Association (Educational Associates) and the Iowa City Community School District Board of Directors, July 1, 1998 through June 30, 2000
 
 

Iowa Association of School Boards and Urban Education Network Documents

Iowa Association of School Boards, IASB School Board Member Handbook, 1996-97

Iowa Association of School Boards, Iowa School Finance Manual: A Guide to Understanding the Iowa School Foundation Program, 1995-96 School Year (Jan. 1996)

Iowa Association of School Boards, Iowa State Board of Education, School Board Leadership: the Future (Feb. 1994)

Urban Education Network, 1997-8 Annual Report (April 1998)