marched over to central division to file a kidnapping charge and a civil rights complaint. well, that's easy because he wasn't kidnapped. he was arrested. and he's a juvenile, so he won't even wind up in court where a lawywy could use a rights violation to threaten us. oh, well, she is threatening you currently with a rights viwlation. she identified herself as his lawyer, and you are denying him counsel. don't worry. he ain't talking. well, i am talking, and you both better listen -- in the process of creating this miasma officer-involved incidents, did you also order someone to physically assault armand marku? no. i prevented mr. marku from injuring his arm in the elevator door. the e arges are without merit, and you may take that as my official statement. oh, thank you. i'm just gonna jot this down on my way back to the airport. oh, wait. i can't gogo to the airport yet

and i have to interview the victim! so where's the boy?! buzz: wow, mrs. johnson, thth looks delicious. it's just leftovers. can you imagine cooking a meal in here? i guess if you broughtin a broaster and a crock-pot. aren't you hungry, renda leigh? no, daddy. where's lieutenant provenza? i'm bringing food for him and skander, ma'am. maybe black-eyed peas and fried okra will get him to talk. ynn: you know, this is crazy, chief. why don't we just ask the kid if he did it? what if he confesses? he's got a lawyer, but she's not present. he's a juvenile, but i don't know... [ wheels squeaking ] captain, i thout you were -- nonoanymore. i am once again in a 72-hour reporting cycle for an officer-related assault involving our acting chief of pice, and your suspect is my witness, so -- oh, it's a little chchstmas miracle. what is? well, we're not sure if we can interview the boy, but you have to!

okay, listen -- as soon as i finish asking my questions, i'll ask some of y yrs, but then i want a police escort to l.a.x. done. so, can you tell me which policeman pushed your uncle? the bald one. [ coughs ] and then what happened? if i say, will you let meo? if you can tell me hat happened after the policeman pushed your uncle, then, yes, i can help you go home. he didn't push my uncle. he didn't? he punched him in the face, then took out his gun and pointed it at my head. ohh. skander... are e u sure about that? yeah! then he shoved me in a closet, put a blindfold on me, and told me to lie down on the floor.

and then he tiedede up and said he was gonna kill me. all those things crossed my mind. brenda leigh? mamaplease, not now. and then he kicked me in the stomach. it's true! okay. o-kay. this is some vy, very bad stuff. and that bald policeman is in big, big trouble. oh, this isn't helping me at all. you don't really have to ask ththboy questions. mama, yes, i do. no, no. what i mean is whenever we had trouble with charlie, we let her use clay's laptop. when s s was done, we'd reaa over some of herer-mails. mama, you spied on charlie?! oh, yes. well, it was our computer, brenda leigh. i know that soundsad, but it's nototgainst the law.

all right, come on, come on. have a seat. now, there's, , , all kinds games on there. knock yourself out. [ soda tab pops ] only thing is, stay off the internet. against police rules. okay, so this is a mirror image of the commander's computer, so we can track everything the boy's doing as he does it. [ car racing sounds ] [ beeping ] okay, "saramed." is that some kind of aanian name? it's an instant message tag.

so, i think he's talking to his aunt. and if he is, why did he tell us she was in kosovo? oh, oh. he went into e-mail. sara miller, st. sebastian hospital. gabriel: all right, all right. i'll call the hospital. "blood food"? what is he talking about? i think that's "feud," not "food." joan marku said something about family honor being sacred in kosovo, that it was some kind of old code of justice that went back centuries. you know, i'm gonna look all that up on wikipedia. here, use my computer. okay. spoke to t t hospital. there's a sara marku miller,

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[ sighs ] so tender and mild sleep in heavenly peace i don't know what this blood feud's about, but no one else is gonna die from it. uh... lieutenant, call chief pope. tell him we need 24-hour protection assigned to joan, armand, and skander marku. all of them.

jeer and get them placed in paid or unpaididnternships and grow that program so every kid can have an internship and work it into

what i've heard a lot from my there mae lacking a some of employ -- may be lacking some of the employability skills, so advertise something we'll citizen to work on. as we move towards this bl, beale grow those and develop them even more before the building is built. we'll get to that point and grow our classes, as jane was saying, grow those and expand those so the kids know what's going to be going out to. because we're looking at our freshmen and eighth graders now moving into thth building and we want to make sure we grow our programming so they can see, oh, that's what i'll be taking when i get out there. so there's a pathway there for them to follow. >> ron: ththe is just me talking, but one area i think i see where you could curtail the dropout rate significantly at least by getting kids interested in something they're actually interested in and something at ast at that time as they grow up, they'll say this stuff really makes sense to me, but they get on a career path that gets jumpstarted right away

the dropout rate, i'm just startled by that sometimes. >> career education has always been a hook to keep kids involved and the kids that are on the edge, we can save more. >> ron: and was about improving, for example, the academics of minorities too? that's always a certa. >> this is a program really for all students and when youu talk about the drop outrate, that was one thing that the committee -- in all the things we studied over these past three years, we took a good look at the dropouou rate and the graduation rate and we knew our graduation rate in waterloo is not where we need it to be. you know, you can look at the statistics and, you know, we run about 75% graduation rate for a four-year grgruation rate. we have some kids who stay another fifth year and sixth year, and we applaud that. that's absolutely fine, but what happens is if they don't complete in four years, a lot of times ey leave s. and d just can't have that. and so we're losing far too many students and we're losing

need to keep all of our kids because if you don't graduate, there aren't very many opportunities out there, jobs out there for people, and so we want to do better and we know statistically when we've done our research, stricts and buildings that have this type of program on average have a 92% graduation rate. that would be vastly different from what we have right now, and so it's a mission to do better for our kids. they deserve it, they need it. >> ron: and it's not an alternative school. you have a -- >> no -- >> ron: alternative school and they take for some of the kids that for various reasons don't want to be in the high schools, don't seem to fit in. this is not what you're talking about at all. >> no, but it may save some of those kids. >> ron: it may be a new alternative school. >> absolutely, alternativee lelening environment. >> what it is is the hands-on learning. you know, one example, one of the programs we're looking at would be animal science. well, for a student who's

would be -- interested in veterinary, that would be a good program. for a student sta wants to go to farm or farm management, good program forthehe you can go for a two-year or a cert ti fiction or you can go on for six ears. high school as safe learning environment for kids to fifire out the career areathey want for their next level in life rather than going to college and then trying to figure out what do i want to do. >> ron: we're going to take our final break, come right back. we're running out of time here on the program. it goes by so quickly. >> it does.

>> ron: welcome back to our final segment this week of the steele report. we have three representatives of the waterloo community school district talkingngbout the future of education in a different approach in the waterloo district with the career and technical education and the new building being proposed out by central middle school.. you worked with hawkeye community college, the university of northern iowa, so those are great partnerships. some people might say, well, would thb a duplication of what hawkeye is doing. explain to us howw that'snot the case and why you think this is the way to go. >> absolutely. well, one of the most important things when we looked at going down this fast way is we did have -- pathway, we did have hawkeye at the table. dr. bradley and dr. allen were

from hawkeye's standpoint, we're offering waterloo and hawkeye credit for many of our programs. students get the opportunity for college credit towards a program at hawkeye and it helps them figuwe out that prram for when they do cide to ansfer to lauk ki, it's a better pai way. kids are better prepared. that's one of the things that hawkeye said this would help our enrollnt, but help students' completion rate. that's a big thing they think about. stududts start college and many students don't complete, but by having the base in high school, it really sets studnts up for success from the high school and from the college end. another great example, the program right now at hawkeye, they do offer a nursing assistant where our students go to hawkeye for that program, but it's so popular that there's always a waiting list. even hawke has a waitinin list for thatat program. if we can offer some of that in this new center, that will alleviate a little bit of that, but we also know it's a need in

need to produce just as many as those healthcare workers as there is on the waiting list. from uni's standpoint, being able to have students should she want to, transfer from high school level to the community college level to the four-year university as huge thing and if we can do that in the cedar valley, that will be really dynamic, so we've been working at putting together articulations and agreements so all that programming will be accepted for certain programs all the way up to uni and that's a great gift for our students, so they're not taking college courses that don't fit into their program. >> ron: i think theoretically, that's a natural farm system if uni and hawkeye. >> as we talk with students out in other technical high schools, we asked them questions, where are you going to go. honestly,ings of them are going -- some of them aree going to a two-year community college,

four-year college, some going to work, but it gives them a lot of options. in the construion program in des moines, we were talking th the students, some were going to work, some were going to go to dmacc and others to iowa stays to be an architect or construction manager or engineer. it is a gateway towhatever the chide wants to do. >> and jane hit on going right into work. a lot of these areas we're going to focus in, they're going to have industry certification that the kids can earn so they can have something that they can back out the door and get a job in that area with that certification. >> that's fantastic. >> one last thing about the career tech center, it's a good thing for waterloo also because we have student organizations and the students actually apply what they've learned in their classes to competitions, and i've had national officers, state officers, a wide range, so these kids get leadership experience, they get b lot of different opportunitieseshat theyeyon't necessarily have if they're not involved in the career and tech areas. >> ron: now, does it have an actual name yetand how do you

>> name yet, no. right now we're creel calling it -- calling it the career center and the finance piece, we wanted to make sure something that was supported by the community, but is best for kidss one thing we heard loud and clear was people wanted us to consider something differently as far as funding structure. the typical structure is you have the propopty tax rate and then you add an additional amount. a project like this funded through a bond actually results in an increased property tax. so the committee really listen to people and we knew it was much more groodly supported to look -- broadly supported to look at something like an income surtax. we can't fund it through an income surtax because the law doesn't permit it, but we looked at something, we have something we're currently funding through property tax that could be sthifted on it to free up existing property tax dollars, so honestly, we're looking at funding it at the existing property t tx rate.

surtax, but what we're looking at as a 4% tax. waterloo doesn't have one, but most districts does. >> ron: hudson do. >> around 82% of districts have an income surtax. waterloo is one of the 8% that does not. we're looking at income surtaxaxnd there's a reason that distributes use it. it's pretty broadly supported, so the committee heard it and we look at on the iowa income tax, whatever you owe, it would be a 4% surtax on that. it's very broadly supported and really six to one. for every one person who said put on it property tax, six people said do something different. >> ron: we'll talk more about that wheheyou come back after the first of the year. that's it this week to the steele report. we'll be back with another topic next week. you can join us online as always on kwwl.com as well.

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