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A state law against mask mandates in Iowa schools is putting “children’s health on the line,” Iowa State Education Association President Mike Beranek argued Monday before a federal judge put the law on hold.
After University of Northern Iowa and Des Moines Area Community College in 2020 debuted a streamlined path for DMACC students seeking a four-year UNI degree, the pair have announced a new “tuition equality” initiative allowing the students to get their Panther degrees for a Bears tuition rate.
How many freshmen will Iowa universities see this fall? It’s hard to tell, given the enrollment losses last year because of COVID-19 and the pandemic’s impact on family finances.
Reversing some of its losses in recent years, the University of Iowa in the “2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges” rankings out today made among one of the biggest gains on the publication’s oft-touted national university list.
Fans at this weekend’s Cy-Hawk game won’t witness a repeat of the band fiasco that two years ago left some members injured, prompted police investigations and nearly nixed future games.
Among 20 pages of policy changes the Board of Regents will consider next week is one explicitly giving the board president power to remove someone from a meeting if that person “engages in behavior that materially interferes with the board’s ability to conduct the meeting.”
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Carson King, the security-guard-turned-philanthropist whose sign went viral in 2019, has been building his charity while remaining a “regular working guy.”
Eastern Iowa social studies teachers try to contextualize a 20-year war on terror.
The bond, which would be a zero dollar tax rate increase, would make it possible for air conditioning to be added to middle and high school, among other needed upgrades
Total enrollment across all three of Iowa’s public universities dropped again this fall, according to new numbers made public Thursday showing a continued slide that began in fall 2017 and worsened last year when COVID-19 upended the higher education experience.
‘We cannot simply ignore the law,’ letter to parents signed by 10 superintendents says
“Earning college credit while in high school benefits students in so many ways,” said a statement from Ann Lebo, director of the state Education Department. “While we had a record number of jointly enrolled students during the 2019-20 academic year, we still have work to do.”
Police objected to officer removals from McKinley and Roosevelt
Iowa’s Board of Regents – denied any state funding increase for its public universities in the last legislative session – is requesting a $15 million bump to its higher education appropriations for the next budget year.
Hear from the candidates for Cedar Rapids mayor in a livestreamed, virtual forum hosted by The Gazette.
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