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Backlash to Obama’s speech fueled by school board elections?

By Chase Martyn 9/8/09

Though President Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren today would have likely generated some controversy no matter when it had been scheduled, the White House seemed to pick a particularly bad day for it, at least for Iowans.
As Obama delivered his live address today, hundreds of school board members and candidates were trying to win elections [...]

Incumbents prevail in testy DSM school board race

By Jason Hancock 9/10/08

It was a campaign that focused as much on a man who wasn’t running as it did on the eight who were, but in the end the race for three open seats on the Des Moines Public School Board went to the incumbents.

Supreme Court rules D.M. school board acted lawfully

By Jason Hancock 8/8/08

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled today that Des Moines Public Schools properly handled money collected from a 1999 sales tax increase for school construction.

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