Comment on Cedar Rapids School District backs down from contract proposal amid teacher outcry

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Cedar Rapids Community School District has backed down from a proposal that many teachers feared would have removed all but base wages from their contracts.The Cedar Rapids school board Monday approved a contract agreement between the district and its teachers’ union that maintained many of the permissible items that an initial proposal from Superintendent Brad Buck would have had removed and relegated to a district handbook.“I was not pleased with the process,” board member Gary Anhalt said Monday.