Nutrition services departments carrying more unpaid meal debt since federal waivers for school breakfast, lunch expired
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Nutrition services departments carrying more unpaid meal debt since federal waivers for school breakfast, lunch expired
Fifty years after Iowa began collecting and analyzing data on residents diagnosed with cancer through its Iowa Cancer Registry, statistics reveal Iowa has the second-highest cancer incidence rate in the nation and is the only state with a rising rate of cancer.
The union representing 3,800 University of Iowa Health Care workers has announced the ratification of its “strongest contract for our members in Iowa since the changes to Chapter 20 in 2017.”
University of Iowa Athletics will reimburse the state for the $2 million taxpayers covered of a $4.2 million deal to settle a discrimination lawsuit 12 former football players filed against UI Athletics and its coaches, UI President Barbara Wilson said Thursday morning.
Also, language barrier grants go to Iowa businesses
Voters in Solon and Iowa Valley school districts said “yes” Tuesday to school bond referendums that will fund facility improvements.
University of Iowa Athletics’ 2023 “diversity, equity, and inclusion five-year action plan” — which the department will get help operationalizing under terms of a new discrimination lawsuit settlement — lists 20-plus “actionable activities,” like designing “spotlight recognition awards for DE&I teams and departments who exemplify our values.”
Iowa schools would have fewer requirements on what they teach and how they provide instruction under a bill the Iowa Senate passed Tuesday.
‘Our state depends on the next generation of youth to fill critical roles in agriculture,” Iowa Farm Bureau President Brent Johnson said
FIRST Tech Challenge teams design, build, program and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge.
Despite State Auditor Rob Sand’s opposition to taxpayers footing nearly half the $4.2 million bill to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by former Hawkeye football players against the University of Iowa, the State Appeal Board on Monday OK’d the agreement — including the $2 million cost to taxpayers.
Through the Prairie program — and a similar Grant Wood Area Education Agency apprenticeship — students can get their health care career started while they’re in high school, reducing the time spent working toward a career, and helping the health care workforce shortage.
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