| Every school every Thursday -- WDM/Waukee/Clive
The Waukee school district will have no school Wednesday through Nov. 23.
Nov. 28 is the district's next two-hour early dismissal.
To ensure you have your holiday apparel order in time, your online order has to be received by Nov. 26. Go to www.waukeebands.org and then to the "Apparel" tab, and you can shop from the comfort of your own home. Warrior World is also open at the High School Commons on Fridays from 3 to 5 p.m. All proceeds stay in Waukee schools and support the instrumental music program from grades five to 12.
Brookview
A PTO meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday in the Brookview media center.
Eason
On Monday, third-graders will perform a music program at 6:30 p.m.
Software aims to make learning Arabic easier
SAN FRANCISCO — Loren Siebert decided to learn Arabic as a personal challenge, one that would distract the ailing triathlete from a leg that he broke during training. Two years later, the 36-year-old software engineer created a program called LinguaStep that is helping college students study the language when interest in Arabic on college campuses is at an all-time high. .
Midyear kindergarten class set
UNION CITY At the start of this academic year, Evelyn Owusu's son struggled to make the transition from kindergarten to first grade. He had to adjust to longer school days and more difficult course work. "The curriculum is quite intensive. ... There's so much students need to know before first grade," said Owusu, who has decided that the traditional half-day kindergarten class isn't enough to prepare children for the next level of schooling. So Owusu hopes to enroll her daughter, Yaa Serwaa, in the New Haven school district's new midyear kindergarten class. Billed as a readiness program, the midyear, or "junior kindergarten," class is tailored for children who will turn 5 between Dec. 3 and March 23, to prepare them for kindergarten the following school year. She then plans to place Yaa Serwaa in an all-day kindergarten program next year so that when the time comes, the switch to first grade won't be as difficult for her as it's been for her brother.
Forum weighs possibility of universal health care
Local and national experts gathered at the University Auditorium on Monday night to discuss the condition of U.S. health care.Representatives from UF, the American Medical Association and the Harvard College of Medicine attended the event, which was sponsored by Accent, American Medical Student Association, American Constitution Society and the American Medical Association.Brandon Sack, a biomedical sciences graduate student and organizer of the event, said his main goals with the forum were to spur an informed discussion and allay fears people might have about universal health care. .
The CNN Wire: Thursday, Nov. 15
Pakistani president swears in interim cabinet members ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf swore seven of his allies into a caretaker government on Friday -- a body that will oversee the parliamentary process until national elections can be held no later than Jan. 9. "An old cabinet is gone and a new cabinet -- a caretaker government -- has been sworn in," Musharraf said to applause. "Life continues, no body is permanent. One comes, one serves, tries one's best in the interest of the nation ... and then when they have to go that is the way of nature, they have to leave and this is what is democracy." The event, carried live on Pakistani state-run TV, showed the new members taking an oath to "bear true faith" to Pakistan, among other pledges.
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