Struggling early readers will receive detailed assistance plans and have the option to be held back, and elementary teachers in training will be required to take an aptitude test on early reading instruction.
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Struggling early readers will receive detailed assistance plans and have the option to be held back, and elementary teachers in training will be required to take an aptitude test on early reading instruction.
“When we came together, it was really a conversation to say – are there ways, given our size, that we could be more agile, more responsive to the needs of our community partners, and build out a series of opportunities that we think improve access and affordability for students going forward?”
A week after a Story County judge denied Iowa State University’s request the court dismiss a lawsuit from the family of a student who died three years ago in a crew club accident, the parties have agreed to settle the case — negating the need for a trial.
A first peek at proposed tuition increases for Iowa’s public universities — made public Monday — indicates resident undergraduate students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University could pay 3 percent more next fall, while University of Northern Iowa in-state undergrads could pay 2 percent more.
$1,000 bonus to employees who sign new contracts, submit resignation within seven days of receiving their contract.
Within 30 minutes of a group of pro-Palestinian protesters setting up a small encampment at the University of Iowa’s Hubbard Park just after 7 a.m. Monday morning, UI police were on scene ordering them to leave or be arrested.
During the first Herky on Parade in 2004, Archie wasn’t yet born. For the second in 2014, he was just a toddler — but still has some memories. And for the third iteration, Archie grabbed a paint brush.
Back in mid-March — more than a month before the Iowa Legislature passed a bill imposing on Iowa’s public universities sweeping diversity, equity, and inclusion restrictions that go beyond directives from their governing Board of Regents — Republican lawmakers sought a DEI update from the campuses.
Hundreds of people toured Garfield and Arthur elementary schools in northeast Cedar Rapids Saturday morning. The schools are being retired by the Cedar Rapids Community School District at the end of this academic year, and replaced by Trailside Elementary School.
Far from this week’s dramatic scenes of baton-wielding police clad in riot gear and bulletproof vests clashing with pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses coast to coast — a diverse combination of Iowa City students and residents on Friday mingled peacefully on the University of Iowa Pentacrest lawn.
Iowa’s four-year high school graduation rate has been reported higher than the actual rate for the last decade because of an error in the calculation code used by the Iowa Department of Education.
There has been a “clamoring” for several years to add a soccer program to Clear Creek Amana’s Middle School’s already robust athletic offerings, said Regan Stone, the middle school’s associate principal and activities director. A survey found that at least 50 students would be interested in going out for the sport if it was offered.
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