The Atlantic School District’s Board of Education will meet in a regularly scheduled session 6-p.m. Wednesday, in the High School Media Center. Among the items on their agenda, is a Special Presentation, with regard to a Home School Assistance Program, and action on the resignation of Jordan Mullen – Head Boys Track Coach, along with contract recommendations for: Clint Weppler – Link Center Paraeducator; Abby Becker – Head Boys Track Coach; and Mark Anderson – Volunteer Boys Soccer Coach.

The Board will receive an update on, and discuss, the district facilities projects, as well as the 2020-21 School Calendar. Action items include approving the 2019-20 Amended/Certified Budget; setting the date and time for a Public Hearing on the 2020-21 School Calendar as March 11th, at 6-p.m.; Acting on a three-year contract for Auditing services with Nolte, Cornman and Johnson, P.C., in the amount of $31,500; and a Technology Purchase that includes 20 access points, one cachebox, and 5-years of support with an 80/20 split with E-rate paying the larger cost, with the total cost to the District amounting to just under $10,000 ($9,676.84).

The idea is that the new technology will increase the internet capacity to 10 Gig, and add a wireless access point for the Middle School as additional computers to the 1:1 program.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa House has approved a K-12 education funding plan that would spend about $16 million more than a version approved by the state Senate. The House on Tuesday voted to increase state spending by nearly $108 million, for a total of about $3.4 billion. Lawmakers approved the funding after first rejecting a proposal by Democrats to spend an additional $20 million.

The House action following approval by the Senate on Monday of a nearly $92 million increase. Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, had proposed increasing education spending by $101 million. Iowa has just over 320 school districts. The funding lawmakers are considering would provide money beginning July 1.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Two doctors and other former employees of a southwest Iowa care center for people with intellectual disabilities, have filed a federal lawsuit against a state agency and several officials alleging a conspiracy to silence complaints about sexual arousal research they claim exploited fragile and dependent residents.

This Dec. 19, 2019, photo shows the outside the Glenwood Resource Center administration building in Glenwood, Iowa. (Kelsey Kremer/The Des Moines Register via AP)

The allegations center on the former superintendent of the Glenwood Resource Center who was fired in December.

The lawsuit claims he conducted medical experimentation. The lawsuit was filed Monday in by two former Glenwood doctors and other former employees. They allege violations of civil rights and whistleblower laws, wrongful termination and interference with a doctor-patient relationship.

(Radio Iowa) — A bill to let more potent medical marijuana products be sold in Iowa has cleared initial review in the Iowa House — but the bill also would limit the total amount of T-H-C patients could be sold over a 90 day period. Representative John Forbes, a Democrat from Urbandale, says some patients are already taking more T-H-C over a three-month period than the bill would allow.

“And it’s having positive impacts on people’s quality of life,” Forbes says, “and how we can pull back and do this to patients here in the state of Iowa — it’s very disconcerting to me as a legislator and a pharmacist.” Governor Reynolds vetoed a bill last year after members of a state advisory board raised objections.

THIS bill would implement the board’s latest recommendation — a limit of four-and-a-half grams of T-H-C over 90 days. Republican Representative Jarad Klein of Keota says he’ll keep discussing the T-H-C limit with the advisory board and the governor.  “Absolutely going to be very closely tied with the board because I know that’s where the governor is,” Klein says. “We know that 25 is too high. We know that 4.5 may be too low for some people, so we’ll see if there’s a middle ground to be found.”

The bill is now eligible for consideration in a House committee. Under the state’s medical cannabis program, there are licensed growers, producers and sellers of medical marijuana to Iowans with a limited number of medical condition like M-S, chronic epilepsy.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports two separate arrests took place, Monday. Authorities say 39-year old Kyle Dickey, was arrested at around 10:50-p.m following a traffic stop at the intersection of Old Lincoln Highway and Missouri Avenue. Dickey was charged with Carrying Weapons, Possession of a Controlled Substance/(Marijuana) – 1^st Offense, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

And, 58-year old Kathy Leona Palmquist, was arrested at around 11:55-p.m. Monday, following an investigation into an accident at Highway 59 and Chestnut Road. Palmquist was charged with Operating While Intoxicated/2^nd Offense.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Police have identified two women found shot to death overnight in Waterloo. Police say officers and medics were called to the home around 11:20 p.m. Monday and found the bodies of 42-year-old Tamica Takeisha Allison and 41-year-old Andrea Rochelle Anderson.

Station KCRG reports that Allison lived in the home where the bodies were found, while Anderson, who is also from Waterloo, was visiting the home. Police say they are searching for a suspect, 36-year-old Mathew Dee Buford III, who also lived in the home.

Police have issued arrest warrants charging Buford with two counts of first-degree murder.