Washington County officials say a challenge to the outcome of a $15 million bond vote for the Highland Community School District will move forward in the next few weeks, coming to a trial before a “challenge court” of stakeholders.
Middle school students in Cedar Rapids will compete this Saturday to complete tasks with robots they’ve built out of Lego bricks and present potential solutions to real-world problems they;ve been researching since the beginning of the school year.
Over the years, the concert’s proximity to the holidays snowballed into a full-on holiday theme – outfitting Yeats as the conductor in a Santa suit and inspiring UI School of Music students to come up with more and more tuba arrangements of the seasonal classics, from “Sleigh Ride” and “Silent Night” to “Frosty the Snowman” and “Grandma got run over by a reindeer.”
The new Iowa City policy requires phones, earbuds and headphones to be “detached from the student’s body.”
Up to five days of virtual instruction would possible if inclement weather cancels school a part of proposed 2025-26 school calendar.
Construction of Cedar Rapids schools’ Freshman Academies and college and technical education wings could begin as early as spring break in March.
A task force is charged with making any recommendations for further changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies after a new state law went into effect this year.
The proposed policy would require Iowa City district students’ phones to be silenced and placed in a backpack, purse, hanging pouch in the classroom, or in a student’s assigned locker during class.
Despite fears of another cycle plagued with delays or other issues, financial aid experts are saying that the start of the new federal student aid filing period has gone smoothly, taking a weight off their and families’ shoulders.
Also, award honors housing needs analysis work in Linn County
Parents have questions, concerns, but career-focused education no longer ‘a fad,’ proponent says
Iowa’s public universities maintained, or even increased, their first-year undergraduate counts this fall – bucking a national trend of deep losses in 18-year-old freshmen, according to special analysis of that group recently released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
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