March 2016
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Raise.me starts new trend in earning scholarships for CBCSD students
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Senior counselor Carla Hartenhoff talks to Mr. Busby’s class about making their own Raise.me portfolio.
Derrick Johnson Editor-in-Chief
Scholarship season is well underway, and now there’s a new way for students to earn money from colleges, Raise.me. The website allows colleges to give micro scholarships to students based off their high
Renovations coming soon to the west end Morgan Barth Reporter
Change is starting to happen throughout Council Bluffs. Plans to renovate the ‘West End’ have went into effect in 2014 and have been carried into 2016. From the riverway to West Broadway, improvements will be added. It will bring popularity that the West End never had, and the face of that specific part of town will be improved. At the beginning of West Broadway, renovations have started at Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park. Two medium-sized office buildings will be added, along with condos that hold
community space, retail use and townhomes. Further east of these renovations, apartments townhouses and mixed-used buildings will line the new street that’s being installed. Also, West Broadway Corridor’s landscape will be enhanced. There will be fewer drive-ins and curb cuts. Landscape will be added to the intersecting side streets to complement the roads. Streets in front of Thomas Jefferson will also be apart of those renovations. If approved by the school board, there has been discussion within the city to work where the old train tracks were
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school resumes. The University of Iowa has teamed up with Raise. me to give micro-scholarships, specifically to Council Bluffs Community School District students. It all stems from the Iowa All
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99 pilot project, which chooses a school district in each Iowa county to receive scholarship money for its students. CBCSD was chosen this year based off of average income and other qualifications. With the program, students can create a Raise.me portfolio, and earn up to $1,200 from the University of Iowa spread out over four years. Simple things like participating in extracurricular activities or earning B’s in math classes can give up to $75 dollars for each year. All information is recorded by Raise.me and sent to the college in order to determine how much money you deserve. “You can start this as early as your 9th grade year and start plugging things in,” said senior counselor Carla Hartenhoff. “It becomes a working document.” Although the program wasn’t announced to long ago, CBCSD students who plan to go to the University of Iowa have already taken advantage of the website. Future Hawkeye, Sadie Andrews, has spent some time making her portfolio for the University of Iowa, earning $525. “I think it’s really cool,” said
Sadie. “Instead of having to worry about getting enough, I can base it off my small accomplishments through high school.” Other schools such as Morningside, Buena Vista University, and University of Nebraska-Omaha have also set up Raise.me platforms that best suits them, making this a new trend that seems to be growing fast. Although they are on the website however, the University of Iowa is the only college that is associated with the incentive program geared towards TJ and AL kids. “Even if you’re not going to the University of Iowa, just putting [the portfolio] in can show kind of where you’re at in terms of what colleges are looking for,” said Hartenhoff. 2016 seniors who have been accepted to the University of Iowa have until April 1st to get their Raise.me portfolios created. Mrs. Hartenhoff will be helping those specific students with their Raise.me portfolios as the deadline gets closer.
Megan Carroll/The Signal West Broadway, an area that may soon be renovated.
installed and add in a running trail, or a transit line. New traffic signs, like School Zone’s have also been planned to go up on T.J’s campus. Signals and street lights will also be installed, along with sidewalks and sanitary storm sewers that
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have drainage improvements. First Avenue has been planned to turn into a two-way street, it will have a side path for bikes and walkers. Roads will be restored to create a cleaner and smoother passway for vehicles and pedestrians. Avenue A is said
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to be changed to strictly a bus or rapid transit route, if passed by officials. The city has continued their plans by restoring buildings along with the CBCSD Stadium; new facilities have also been opened along West Broadway.
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