Iowa schools must offer computer classes by 2022, but $3.7 million is available now to help.
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Iowa schools must offer computer classes by 2022, but $3.7 million is available now to help.
When prominent animal behavior scientist and autism advocate Temple Grandin stands before a Coe College crowd this evening, she plans to pose a question: “What would have happened to Einstein in today’s educational system, since he had no speech until he was 3?”
Employees are retiring, moving to less stressful careers, as UI works to hire hundreds
Ashley Hudson –an “aspiring kindergarten teacher and had dreams of becoming a Mount Mercy graduate” – died Monday, Sept. 20, as a result of COVID complications.
A strategic planning survey Iowa’s Board of Regents Office in June sent to more 230 Iowans — including every lawmaker, every member of the governor’s staff and every state department head — received 75 responses, including just 17 from the 200-plus lawmakers and state staffers who got it.
‘I have no illusions that we will ever go back to so-called normal’
Hills Elementary is one of five Iowa schools among 325 nationwide named as 2021 National Blue Ribbon Schools by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Tuesday.
Last year, 95.9 percent of Iowans seeking a high school equivalency diploma passed the HiSET exam compared with 80.5 percent nationally.
64 students and staff in the district are currently positive for COVID-19, and 117 in quarantine from exposure. 41 of those students positive for COVID-19 are in kindergarten through sixth grade, which is the population of students not yet eligible to be vaccinated.
The school district’s new ombudsperson will be an informal resource for students, families and staff
In documents made public Monday, the state of Iowa provided testimonials from three women who said their children have medical issues that make mask wearing difficult for them.
Former Hawkeye football players suing the University of Iowa and some athletics staffers for racially motivated discrimination and harassment are reporting a behind-the-scenes dispute over discovery and asking a judge to extend a deadline because of it.
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