Last week we told you about a fire that caused significant damage to Franklin Elementary School in Moline.
Since then, students had been off while the school board searched for a temporary location for classes to be held while repairs were made...
Students at Moline's Benjamin Franklin Elementary School will be getting and extra day off, and maybe more after a fire on the weekend at their school.
Local reports say firefighters responded to all a call at about 10:30 Sunday morning and arrived to find a classroom engulfed in smoke and flames...
A refurbished bus is now a mobile boutique helping local kids in need. The former school bus, outfitted with clothes and accessories, is called Maddie's Closet and is up and running thanks in part to a $15,000 grant from Royal Neighbors of America.
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To borrow a quote from Christopher Nolan's movie The Dark Knight, for kids dreading a return to school next week, it was the discovery 'they deserved.'
According to a report in the Sioux City Journal, a worker installing a new phone system at a high school in George, Iowa, east of Sioux City, discovered a colony of bats in the ceiling...