Iowa launches second round of para apprenticeship grants for K-12 schools.
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Iowa launches second round of para apprenticeship grants for K-12 schools.
Unofficial results from Tuesday’s election appeared to show the Highland school district’s $15M bond issue passed. But the bond question didn’t appear on all the ballots that were supposed to include it. Now, the Washington County auditor says those results are likely null, and a special election may have to be scheduled.
Six days after Donald Trump achieved a historic victory that will return him to the White House next year, controversial conservative commentator Michael Knowles on Monday will speak at the University of Iowa — inciting push back from some on campus in the form of vandalism and planned protests.
Some Iowa educators are embracing artificial intelligence, using it as a tool so they can be more efficient in lesson planning and other tasks, and teaching their students how it works, ethical implications and when it’s appropriate to use.
The chair of the Iowa House Education Appropriations Committee on Thursday afternoon called on University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson to terminate a UI Health Care fellow for a comment he posted on X following the presidential election.
Iowa’s public universities in recent months have made progress on complying with a new law restricting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related spending, training, and programming, but some regents and lawmakers say their work isn’t done.
With the University of Iowa’s pending $20.6 million purchase of 45 percent of the Old Capitol Town Center slated for Board of Regents approval Thursday — making it full owner of the nearly two-block former mall — the campus will nearly double what it already has spent buying the first 55 percent.
The nonprofit that prepares students for careers, teaches financial literacy expanding programming into many Eastern Iowa schools
Facility projects get green-light in Center Point-Urbana, Highland, Decorah and Monticello
A juvenile who made an online threat against Taft Middle School Monday could face charges, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
Three years after $20 million in federal pandemic aid allowed the University of Iowa in 2021 to open a new “Center for School Mental Health” -- and two years after receiving a $15 million donation to keep it going -- the center is expanding to reach more school-aged kids and moving to a “fee-for-services model.”
Also, Clear Creek Amana is considering a new policy that would prohibit the use of personal electronic devices -- which includes cell phones, headphones and other Bluetooth devices -- by students during instructional time.
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