by Caleb Lillquist | Aug 24, 2021 | Campaigns, State Politics
Dr. Kira Werstein announced her run for Ames Community’s School Board this week. Werstein has three children in the ACDS and is an associate teaching professor at Iowa State University. “We’ve lost our focus in public education. We need to spend less time...
by Caleb Lillquist | May 21, 2021 | Education, Policy
After the recent backlash of a Black Lives Matter school curriculum being taught, Ames Police Department and parents are now pushing back against the Ames school board’s new initiative to eliminate school resource officers entirely (SRO’s). The push from the school...
by Iowa Field Report | Mar 16, 2021 | Education, Mailbag
Ames School’s Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Misses the Mark If you knew anything about me and my parenting style, you would quickly understand that, while I care about the education of our two boys, I rarely critique the methods used by our schools to...
