The future of magnet school programming in the Cedar Rapids Community School District may include a school just for high school freshmen and sophomores.
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The future of magnet school programming in the Cedar Rapids Community School District may include a school just for high school freshmen and sophomores.
Even with COVID crippling community services and hampering projects and initiatives last year, a “heart safe community campaign” in honor of the late University of Iowa cardiology professor Richard Kerber did not skip a beat — so to speak.
Once again, fewer students enrolled in Iowa’s 15 community colleges this fall — continuing a decadelong slide that COVID exacerbated, driving a 7.5 percent drop from fall 2019 to fall 2021.
The owners of Kinderfarm Preschool are searching for a new owner for the business and property to continue a 50-year tradition of offering nature-based preschool.
Students with social anxiety, who feel self-conscious, or who don’t like navigating school hallways may focus better in virtual learning environment.
Though total enrollment across Iowa’s public universities has been sliding for the last five years — including big drops from COVID since 2019 — the University of Iowa is predicting a 4-percent one-year jump next fall and 6-percent bump by 2026, according to new data UI provided to lawmakers.
School District Social Worker Michelle Wilson has lead the project over many years and through the pandemic and after the derecho, she is seeing more need than before
Cedar Rapids middle school students are taking advantage of the opportunity to play sports this year after all middle school athletics were canceled in Iowa during the 2020-21 school year to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
With Iowa eager to put COVID in the rear view mirror, Board of Regents President Mike Richards in May lifted the state of emergency he imposed in March 2020 and mandated Iowa’s public universities return to pre-pandemic operations.
Like other award recipients from the upended 2020-21 term, Dizdarevic said she’s glad to get any experience at all through an esteemed Fulbright program – the world’s largest international exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2021.
The new program follows protests at Iowa City West High and Northwest Junior High about social media posts over the weekend.
Protests that enveloped the University of Iowa’s Phi Gamma Delta fraternity this fall caused more than $200,000 in damage to the chapter house and displaced 28 members for the semester.
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