There are now four people who have filed to be candidates for the Sioux City School Board election in November.
Jebediah Hibbs and Dan Greenwell told Siouxland Public Media News on Tuesday that they wants to serve on the school board of directors.
Hibbs is a Navy veteran who unsuccessfully ran for the school board in 2023.
There are three Sioux City School Board members who have expiring terms at the end of this year. Bobby Michaelson and Jan George have previously said they will again be candidates, and now Greenwell joins them.
Greenwell is proud of the financial position of the Sioux City School District, and other advances academically. He received the most votes in the last two board elections.
The filing period for school board candidates in Iowa runs through Thursday, September 18.
*Additionally, the South Dakota Board of Regents is pursuing action to fire a University of South Dakota professor.
The potential firing is in response to the professor’s social media post concerning the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last week.
University of South Dakota School of Fine Arts Professor Michael Hook’s personal Facebook post began circulating on Friday, with Republican political leaders taking issue with his comments.
The expletive-laden post said Hook put Kirk in the “hate-spreading Nazi” category. The post went on to question where “all this concern” was with other shootings, including the murders of two Minnesota Democratic state lawmakers earlier in June.
Board of Regents Spokeswoman Shuree Mortenson on Monday confirmed the nine-member board has begun the process by filing an intent to terminate Hook.
She confirmed that Hook was fired under the SD Board of Regents policy 4.4.8, which doesn’t specifically address personal social media usage, but it points to faculty speaking and writing as private citizens.
The code of conduct said while employees “must be free from instructional censorship or discipline…their special position in the community imposes special obligations.”
South Dakota Larry Rhoden on Friday applauded the board of regents action.
Hook has defenders, as a petition that has over 2,400 signatures says he should not be fired, as that action "gives our campus the idea that we are not allowed to use our right to the Freedom of Speech."
Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Kirk, NPR reported a few days ago.
One of those was an Iowa high school teacher in Oskaloosa.
