To answer the communities’ need, the League of Women Voters is leading the charge in exploring creation of a new child care center and helping more people become in-home providers.
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To answer the communities’ need, the League of Women Voters is leading the charge in exploring creation of a new child care center and helping more people become in-home providers.
Despite pushback from accused former University of Iowa students and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity with which they were involved, a lawsuit alleging alcohol- and drug-assisted sexual violence and “malicious and intentional circulation” of photos and videos is ongoing and headed for trial in July.
Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday reappointed two regents charged with governing Iowa’s public universities and named one new appointee to the nine-member board — former Republican congressional candidate Robert Cramer.
Solon, Benton and Iowa Valley school districts have proposed bonds that would fund school improvement projects. Voters will decide Tuesday.
14 students in Cedar Rapids schools were nominated by their teachers for a Kids First award for exemplifying good citizenship, problem-solving and empathy.
Mercy Iowa City Hospital in recent months had to retain a “strategic and operational performance improvement” consultant after breaching debt coverage obligations amid declining patient days and occupancy percentages. Just two miles west, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is overrun with as many as 70 people waiting in the emergency room at one time.
Republicans advanced bills Wednesday that would restrict which materials are available to students in school libraries amid increased scrutiny from conservative activists around school material they consider to be explicit.
‘It’s never going to stop queer people from existing,’ Iowa City High student says
Republican lawmakers Wednesday began “dismantling the (diversity, equity, and inclusion/critical race theory) bureaucracies existing at our regional institutions” by advancing a bill barring Iowa’s public universities from spending money on DEI offices, employees, and programming.
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 former Hawkeye football players who in 2020 filed a lawsuit accusing the UI football program of racial discrimination and harassment have dropped their claims against head coach Kirk Ferentz, offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, Athletic Director Gary Barta, and former strength coach Chris Doyle.
The Cedar Rapids school district announced Monday its new magnet high school — the first of its kind in the state — will be located at the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance in downtown Cedar Rapids. The district is more than one-fourth of the way toward its goal to recruit 200 ninth- and 10th-graders for the first year of the new high school.
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