Riverside Community School District

[3] The district, entirely in Pottawattamie County, serves Carson, Oakland, Macedonia and the surrounding rural areas.

[8] Sutton left his position in 2016 to work at the Belle Plaine Unified School District 357, citing proximity to his family.

Dr. Anderson is the former director of elementary education and student services at the Fort Dodge Community School District.

The crash occurred when a school bus driver turned from a rural gravel road onto a residential driveway for student pickup.

Among his opening remarks at the June 18, 2019 Board hearing regarding the accident and the driver's impaired physical condition, Chairman Robert Sumwalt stated, "[t]he Riverside Community School District had the knowledge it needed to act.

"[18] The final report identified the probably cause as, "(1) the driver’s failure to control the bus, backing it into a roadside ditch for reasons that could not be established; and (2) the failure of the Riverside Community School District to provide adequate oversight by allowing a driver to operate a school bus with a known physical impairment that limited his ability to perform emergency duties.