In 2017, the Sioux City Schools brought shocking data to a Comprehensive Strategy (now Source For Siouxland) collaborative community meeting. Less than 17% of Sioux City children enter preschool with age-level skills, and just 44% were at or above literacy benchmarks when they entered kindergarten. Further, studies indicated there...

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”  Gloria Steinem was probably not dreaming about community planning when she made this statement, but her words are nonetheless applicable. Community planning starts with a vision – a dream...