Iowa City school calendars for the next three years — approved last month by the school board — don’t include plans to move to a four-day school week, a conversation that had been initiated by district officials earlier this year.
Construction of a new University of Iowa inpatient tower on its main hospitals and clinics campus — first unveiled in January as part of a 10-year master plan — is expected to start just two years from now in 2025.
The school district is looking to the future with 500 new residential units planned to be built in the Johnson County community over the next 10 years.
One in five of those ISU students screened in fall 2021 were in “serious psychological distress,” and more than half were experiencing loneliness, according to the ISU version of the National College Health Assessment.
Families across Eastern Iowa wait in long lines Friday to find their perfect holiday tree
What does information technology in schools look like today more than two years into the pandemic?
The Primary Source Sets — photos, maps, documents, audio recordings and even cartoons — cover more than 65 broad topics about Iowa and its role in the broader sweep of national and world history, including the Underground Railroad, women’s suffrage, the Cold War and the Iowa caucuses.
Speaking a different language in a health care setting can not only prevent patients from communicating aches and pains or doctors from relaying important medical news or instructions – it can keep people from seeking care altogether.
The College Community School District has implemented a $2 per hour pay increase for bus drivers, as well as a bonus for district employees who recruit a bus driver, van driver or bus aide to join the transportation department.
The adage never to talk religion or politics with family and friends — especially over dinner or the holidays — is getting harder to follow these days given those off-limits subjects increasingly are bleeding into topics historically deemed safer, like the cost of the turkey, the weather, or even Taylor Swift.
Classmates celebrate Bella Saul, 10, Monday with applause, presents and kindness
Winter Wonderland Holiday Celebration free with registration for children in foster care
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