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Sioux City School District Superintendent Paul Gausman could receive a nearly 2 percent raise tonight, boosting his annual pay to more than $243 thousand dollars. Last year, Gausman asked to board to freeze his salary
At its meeting tonight, the school board will vote on a new three-year contract for Gausman. He has been Sioux City school superintendent for 11 years.
The contract calls for a 1.95 percent pay raise for Gausman in the 2019-20 school year, and that is in line with the previously approved raise for other administrators and the two percent raise union leaders negotiated for teachers.
A trial has begun in a Latino civil rights group’s legal challenge of a 2017 law requiring Iowans to show an ID when they vote.
Lawyers for the League of United Latin American Citizens and Iowa State University student Taylor Blair say three provisions of the law are unconstitutional because they burden Iowans exercising their right to vote.
Iowa Assistant Attorney General Matthew Gannon says the judge should find these laws ARE constitutional and let them stand.
A group of Democratic lawmakers awaits the result a lawsuit aimed at rolling back changes to the process for choosing Iowa Supreme Court justices.
For years the judicial nominating commission had eight members chosen by lawyers and eight more appointed by the governor. But the new law allows Governor Kim Reynolds to appoint a ninth person to the panel.
