College Community district creates a ‘newcomer’ class for high schoolers and expands the English learner program to a fifth elementary school.
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College Community district creates a ‘newcomer’ class for high schoolers and expands the English learner program to a fifth elementary school.
Empowering Excellence offers students struggling in the traditional public school setting an alternative path to high school graduation.
The Iowa Supreme Court this week mulled a question at the heart of an Iowa State University professor’s lawsuit alleging decades of wage discrimination: how to interpret the law in a way that motivates fair compensation.
University of Iowa Health Care’s new $280 million deal to expand its cancer-care reach into Central and Western Iowa is about better serving patients in the midst of a statewide “cancer crisis” and is “not a play to have more and more patients come to us in Iowa City,” UIHC officials told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.
Joining the League of Innovative Schools gives the district access to cutting-edge educational practices. It becomes the second Iowa school system to be included, following Iowa City.
University of Iowa Health Care is seeking Board of Regents approval to buy a 43-year-old community-based cancer-care business with 22 locations statewide for a proposed purchase price of $280 million.
Alcohol sales at Iowa football games were up about 29 percent in 2023, according to data obtained by The Gazette.
As University of Iowa International Writing Program director for more than two decades and an accomplished writer himself — having published, among other things, seven collections of poetry and six books of non-fiction — Merrill got to know Yakimchuk, who recently had read her poem “Prayer” during John Legend’s performance of “Free” at the 2022 Grammys, backdropped by images of Russia’s occupation of her homeland.
Although Cornell College raised its tuition this year to $51,970, none of its students pay the full sticker price – and Cornell is making its generous financial aid practices more clear through a new “Tuition Zero” initiative.
Nearly $15 million in federal grant funds awarded to the Cedar Rapids Community School District will be used to support its college and career readiness programs at Washington and Jefferson high schools.
The Iowa City Community School District is delaying its plan to “revision” its elementary schools after the initial proposal was met with a strong reaction from the community imploring it to slow down.
A former University of Iowa student who three years ago filed a lawsuit against the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, its UI chapter, and two former fraternity brothers she accused of sexually assaulting her, filming it, and sharing the images via social media has dropped her case against the fraternity and one of the brothers she sued.
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