In Iowa, STEM education can mean getting a start as early as preschoolers playing with building blocks.
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In Iowa, STEM education can mean getting a start as early as preschoolers playing with building blocks.
Here’s how Cedar Rapids’ West Willow Elementary School teacher Sara Yedlik, chosen for a highly competitive national program for teachers, will bring back to her classroom what she learned.
As University of Iowa Health Care expands it facilities and footprint, and by extension services across Iowa and beyond, administrators want to be strategic in the growth — creating new leadership roles to shepherd the organization’s evolution.
This voter guide includes information about who is running for re-election to Cedar Rapids and Iowa City school boards. The Gazette will be speaking with candidates about their campaigns and priorities in future stories.
A new weeklong summer learning program called Freedom School at the African American Museum of Iowa aims to immerse middle school students in history, civic responsibility and leadership this month.
The move by the Trump administration will withhold $8 million in 21st Century grants from Iowa. The grants fund after-school and summer school programs that serve more than 10,000 Iowa kids. No immediate changes are being made to current grant contracts, but if the funding is not reinstated by next fiscal year, it would be ‘devastating.’
The University of Iowa’s iconic “brain rock” — which for more than a decade offered luck, levity, or just a landmark for students strolling the T. Anne Cleary Walkway — found a new home this week on the west side of campus.
Just weeks before the University of Iowa was set to go to trial over a dispute with its private utilities operator — who sued the campus in 2023, just three years into a $1.165 billion 50-year contract — the two sides have reached a settlement.
A 12-member committee charged with helping find Iowa State University’s next president aims to cast a wide applicant net, leaning toward using the word “preferred” instead of “required” for candidate attributes like a terminal degree or higher ed experience.
Community college leaders and advocates say they are feeling confused and left out of conversations that led to the list of eligible career fields for the Last-Dollar Scholarship program being cut down by one-third.
Reiterating Iowa’s “longstanding support for Israel and the Jewish community,” Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday ordered the Board of Regents to review antisemitism policies at each of its universities and report back to her office on acts of antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023.
Alsoin this week’s Government Notes, an Interstate 380 off-ramp at North Liberty will close this week.
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