Education

This fall, 80 children will attend preschool at the Esperanza Center in Moline.

A former superintendent of the Moline schools may lead the Rock Island schools next year. Tuesday night the school board is scheduled to consider hiring Lanty McGuire to be Interim Superintendent, starting in January.

Not only will St. Ambrose University welcome students back to campus this fall, it will also house a refugee family.

During our Media Arts Summer Camp at Edison Junior High School in Rock Island, students produced a podcast about their thoughts on school violence. Rock Island students were joined by special guests from the Love Girls Magazine team, including Iowa Youth Poet Laureate, Lola Nakashima Brooke. Hosts: Dalaysia Dixon and Kyla Nephew.

Western Illinois University President Guiyou Huang talked about financial sustainability and recruitment & retention during the annual University Assembly.

With help from a federal program, all children in the Rock Island schools will once again be eligible for free breakfasts and lunches.

Luke Nichter, author of The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968, talks about new sources that provide further understanding of the pivotal race including the LBJ-Nixon relationship, the important background role of the Rev. Billy Graham in nurturing that relationship, the myth of Nixon’s Southern Strategy, the real reason for Humphrey’s fall comeback, and why George Wallace is “the most misunderstood politician in history.”

Last week, WVIK News reported a local increase in e-cigarette use in certain grades. But there was actually a decrease.