The North Scott School Board will hold a virtual town hall at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4. The meeting will be streamed from the Administration Building on the district’s YouTube channel. Chat will be enabled, and questions and comments will be taken from citizens. more

Leadership of the North Scott School Board is unchanged after the board’s annual organizational meeting. more

Lancer Productions’ mainstage performance of “Radium Girls” was just one of many highlights from the Iowa Thespian Festival, held Nov. 15-16 at the University of Northern Iowa. more

Success begets success, and the North Scott High School Music Department had another successful year at All-State Auditions. Fourteen students were chosen for the choir and two for the band. more

Larry Schroeder, who lives on West Valley Drive in Eldridge, shared concerns about the district’s request to rezone two parcels of land directly across the street from Ed White from R-1 Single Family Residential and R-2 Two-Family Residential to R-3 Multiple Family Residential with a Planned Residential Overlay. more

Drake University will offer two new financial aid options for certain students, with the hopes of expanding educational opportunities for those seeking associate or bachelor’s degrees. more

Consistency and collaboration are the keys to North Scott’s behavior reporting. more

The North Scott School District has received the Mental Health Matters Award, which will be presented Nov. 1 at the Bethany for Children and Families Community Celebration. The recognition comes as a result of ongoing efforts to advocate for mental health services for students. more

Prior to the regular meeting, North Scott School Board members held a facilities work session with representatives of contracting companies working of the district’s major projects, including Bruce Builders. The session was scheduled in response to calls for greater transparency from board members at the Oct. 14 meeting. At that meeting, the board learned electrical components that were supposed to have been installed in the welding/metals building in advance of its scheduled August opening had yet to arrive. more

North Scott High School is looking to improve ways teachers can assist students in need of academic intervention. more

High school principal Andrew Lehn and junior high principal Chad Jones gave a presentation on the District’s Career and Academic Planning (DCAP) and Individual Career Development Plans (ICAP) programs at the North Scott School Board’s Oct. 14 meeting. more

Following Luther College President Jenifer Ward’s announcement of her plans to retire at the conclusion of the current academic year, the Decorah private college has named its provost as president-elect. more

When members of the Iowa Association of School Boards attend their annual convention at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, they’ll be welcomed by perhaps the only music group of its kind in the state. more

A play based on shocking real-life events will open Lancer Productions’ 2024-25 season. more

The North Scott School District will construct a six-foot high chain-link fence around the playground at Alan Shepard, but the decision came on a 5-2 vote. Molly Bergfeld and Joni Dittmer voted against the project. more

School board members are seeking much more transparency from the district’s construction managers. more

Mount Mercy University leaders, as well as their partners at St. Ambrose University, are hoping to increase enrollment, provide more opportunities for students and strengthen community ties with an expansion to its athletics offerings on campus. more

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst says she’s seeing increased support for a bill she introduced last year to reverse the inclusion of family farms and businesses as assets in the new federal student aid application. more

Neil Armstrong principal Tim Green told the North Scott School Board Sept. 16 that he is excited about changes coming to the Park View elementary school. more

Since 2013, Sinclair Tractor has awarded more than $100,000 to area FFA students who have excelled in their achievements and who plan to further their education in the agricultural field of study. more