A month after announcing plans to relocate and cut services in Iowa City, Kirkwood Community College on Monday aired plans to close two programs, downsize a third, and eliminate faculty and staff positions to “bring future budgets in line with expected revenue.”
‘Hear My Voice,’ a music education program at Liberty High and City High, offers student-driven program focused on hip-hop and the music industry.
Staffing cuts, larger class sizes and delaying purchase of new curriculum planned as school districts use the last of their emergency funding.
Earthquake toll has surpassed 25,000 and hundreds of thousands are left homeless.
Weeks after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a sweeping law creating taxpayer-funded education savings accounts for private schools, Iowa lawmakers are advancing a bill to loosen testing requirements for students taking advantage of the program.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is stepping up his outreach in Iowa ahead of a possible 2024 presidential campaign by rallying conservatives against transgender-affirming policies in schools, like one adopted in Linn-Mar last year.
After two bargaining sessions and a few proposals and counter offers, the Board of Regents preemptively canceled all upcoming meetings with the union representing more than 3,800 University of Iowa Health Care workers and “declared an impasse.”
Through the end of September, the University of Iowa had withdrawn nearly $41 million from an endowment fund it created in 2020 with $985.9 million the campus received as part of a public-private partnership for the operation of its sprawling utilities system.
Unlike the public ceremony that marked Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of a private school funding bill last month, the bill that increases funding to Iowa’s public schools was signed in private on Tuesday.
Historic buildings in Mount Vernon, Vinton and North Liberty also make the list.
In an Iowa House Government Oversight committee meeting Monday evening, the parents, many of them activists with the conservative group Moms for Liberty, read passages from books they found offensive.
Fellows gain confidence, maintain financial security working and learning in Iowa City schools while earning their degrees
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