The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to dissolve the state’s long-standing Early Childhood Iowa structure and replace it with a district-based system modeled after Iowa’s behavioral health and disability services overhaul.
The Cedar Rapids Community School District Friday will pilot its first home-based learning day, a new option this year for winter weather-related school cancellations.
More than a decade after the Iowa Legislature rejected a Board of Regents proposal to link state appropriations with performance metrics, lawmakers have revived the concept of “performance-based funding” in a new bill that would direct regents to reevaluate the incentive-driven funding formula.
Regis Middle School Principal Amanda Allard has been selected to lead the newly consolidated Xavier Middle School, which will maintain two campuses in its inaugural year this fall.
Ian Roberts is expected to plead guilty Thursday in federal court to charges that he falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen and illegally possessed firearms.
If Iowa’s 15 community colleges are allowed to start offering four-year bachelor’s degrees — as Republican lawmakers have said is necessary and likely to happen — some of Iowa’s 27 private colleges and universities will shutter.
Cedar Rapids schools’ chief financial officer and deputy Karla Hogan is retiring in January 2027.
Cedar Rapids school leaders are exploring moving City View Community High School and other innovative school options to the district office as they cut almost $12.9 million from the annual spending plan.
Transit systems across Iowa recently landed $77.2 million in Federal Transit Administration grant funding, including $20.8 million to make the University of Iowa and Iowa State University bus systems more environmentally-friendly.
Also in this week’s Government Notes roundup, Linn-Mar schools has hired superintendent search firm to find the district’s next leader.
A proposal to close and realign schools will come back to the board in February before being taken to the community for further feedback.
Among nearly two dozen higher education-related study bills dropped in the first week of the new legislative session is one looking to reshape the Board of Regents — which for more than a century has governed Iowa’s three public universities.
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