The district began providing devices to all students shortly after closing to students in March 2020 for the pandemic. That 1-to-1 program will remain, but students in kindergarten through fifth grade now will keep their devices at school. Families can opt in to letting their children taking a device home.
Although a growing number of Big Ten faculty senates have passed or endorsed a “mutual defense compact” resolution opposing “escalating politically motivated actions” from the Trump administration, the University of Iowa Faculty Senate has not and does not have it on an upcoming agenda to consider.
Full-day preschool will be offered at all 20 elementary schools in the Iowa City Community School District beginning this fall.
Just three days after the filing of a complaint seeking court intervention in the termination of four University of Iowa international students’ F-1 status, a U.S. district judge Thursday granted a temporary restraining order against the government.
In response to Board of Regents directives and proposed legislation, Iowa State University is transitioning its “Cyclones Civics” initiative into an official center focused on closing civics-related knowledge gaps on things like founding documents, functions of government, principles of American democracy, and “the nature of civil liberties.”
A crowd of angry students and community members armed with signs, chants, and prepared comments convened Wednesday inside the Iowa Board of Regents meeting to oppose its anti-DEI actions and other politically-aligned impositions on the public universities.
Performing arts venues in Iowa City Community School District’s high schools could be the next facilities to see improvements following completion of a 100-page facility study.
The Board of Regents this week is getting ahead of proposed legislation this session by making a handful of policy changes in advance of the bills’ passage — including limiting annual tuition increases for resident in-state students going forward.
Four University of Iowa international students admitted to the United States on F-1 student visas are suing the Department of Homeland Security, its Secretary Kristi Noem, and ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons for terminating their statuses “without legal justification or explanation.”
University of Iowa Health Care is looking to spend tens of millions over the next year to expand its footprint across the region and state -- including with a new family medicine clinic in Tiffin, just a few miles from where UIHC is opening a new 469,060-square-foot hospital in neighboring North Liberty next week.
After more than two years of budget reductions — which included closing an elementary school in Hills — the Iowa City Community School District is “not in a cutting mode” this fiscal year.
Also in this week’s Government Notes, Marion seeks to regulate metal detecting in public parks
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