The Linn County Planning and Zoning Commission has pressed pause on a drafted zoning code about gas-fired electric generating facilities, citing a desire for additional information on proposed setbacks included in the code.
Community Action of Eastern Iowa resumed its Head Start program earlier this month after closing for two months because of the 43-day federal government shutdown last fall delayed funding.
More options for how to close and consolidate schools — created with a community coalition — will be presented to the Cedar Rapids school board Monday in an effort to reduce millions more from the district’s annual budget.
A bill that advanced out of an Iowa Legislature subcommittee this week would impose a tax on college and university endowments, and use the money generated from the tax to provide workforce grant incentive funds aimed at supporting students pursuing majors in high-wage and high-demand jobs.
Two months from the launch of the University of Iowa-based Center for Intellectual Freedom’s inaugural classes, its interim director this week shared details about what will be taught with lawmakers who have become increasingly interested and involved in curricular matters across Iowa’s public universities.
The former superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools admitted to falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen on a federal form and illegally possessing firearms.
With temperatures expected to fall to minus 20 on Friday — and wind chills dipping as low as 35 below zero — the University of Iowa has moved classes online, instructing faculty and staff to teach via Zoom or Teams instead of asking students to show up in person.
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to dissolve the state’s long-standing Early Childhood Iowa structure and replace it with a district-based system modeled after Iowa’s behavioral health and disability services overhaul.
The Cedar Rapids Community School District Friday will pilot its first home-based learning day, a new option this year for winter weather-related school cancellations.
More than a decade after the Iowa Legislature rejected a Board of Regents proposal to link state appropriations with performance metrics, lawmakers have revived the concept of “performance-based funding” in a new bill that would direct regents to reevaluate the incentive-driven funding formula.
Regis Middle School Principal Amanda Allard has been selected to lead the newly consolidated Xavier Middle School, which will maintain two campuses in its inaugural year this fall.
Ian Roberts is expected to plead guilty Thursday in federal court to charges that he falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen and illegally possessed firearms.
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