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The proposal, which is estimated to cost Iowa taxpayers more than $100 million in its first year, could be in subcommittee hearings in the next week.

The letter poses no immediate threat and does not target any specific Cedar Rapids locations, a police spokesman says.

New data moves 8 schools off list of schools with targeted subgroups needing support

Iowa’s university and college campuses this month are planning a host of lectures, activities, and events to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and his National Day of Service — including Iowa State University, featuring a lecture from a civil rights leader arrested for climbing a South Carolina State House pole in 2015 to remove its Confederate flag.

Iowa’s Board of Regents on Tuesday will conduct mid-year performance reviews of their university presidents, who over the last year have faced a range of high-profile issues and challenges -- like the transition from pandemic-era restrictions, free speech on campus, and hundreds of millions in new facilities and upgrades.

The school board is expected to approve a 2023-24 calendar Monday. It includes a later spring break, and makeup days in June.

Rural schools, like North Iowa’s Forest City, fear it will sap what they already see as inadequate funding.

Though a University of Iowa urology professor’s lawsuit against a UI law professor is continuing, it’s doing so absent a federal First Amendment complaint. That ruling came this week after the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling that law professor Marc Linder didn’t act as the state when slamming expert testimony from urologist James Brown.