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CEDAR RAPIDS — The morning after a multimillion dollar school bond referendum narrowly failed voter approval in the Cedar Rapids Community School District, Superintendent Tawana Grover held back tears as she talked about the students.

“As I approached the podium last night, while there were adults in the room, all I could think about and all I could see were the faces of our children,” Grover said in an interview with The Gazette Wednesday morning.

Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, as the last precincts were reported and initial election results showed the $117 million school bond referendum failing by less than 1 percent, Grover gave a different speech than the one she hoped to be giving. Only a coupl

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