Education

Application portal is open for interested local students; informational meeting next week

After at least six incidents of misconduct since the fall of 2017 – including two this academic year – the University of Iowa has suspended its campus chapter of the popular Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity for at least four academic years.

It’s the 15th year for KCCK-FM’s high school mentoring and recording project, the Corridor Jazz Project.

When Russia last week began an active and violent invasion of Ukraine, Zaloznaya heard from friends and family on both sides in both nations — some fleeing to bomb shelters and terrified for their lives, others defending the invasion as justified and necessary.

School districts are thinking critically about racial justice in the tracking of academic opportunities, discipline, retention and hiring of historically underrepresented groups, and staff training around cultural competence.

Truman Early Childhood Center to offer full-day preschool and before and after school care this fall.

Fewer students overall are being charged and more continue to be diverted from arrest in the Cedar Rapids Community School District after changes were made to its school resource officer program last year. But more Black students are being arrested than white students.

The Iowa House went two different directions Monday as it extended more local control to cities to deal with public nuisances, but took away local control from public and private schools, day care centers and colleges by prohibiting them from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations.