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$70,000 available this year to students who have benefited from Tanager services to pursue their future education goals
With the higher education landscape still challenging small private colleges and universities regionally and nationally, Iowa lawmakers this session proposed a measure to make sure the state has more involvement, interaction, and information about any future closures like Wesleyan’s.
Iowa Senate Republicans voted Monday to approve their version of AEA changes, which more closely mirrors a proposal from Gov. Kim Reynolds. Now, lawmakers in the Senate and House must agree on which legislation to send to the governor.
Recap of news from across the state
The bills were introduced by House Republicans in the wake of January’s fatal shooting at Perry High School.
This week, high school students from across Eastern Iowa will compete in a round leading up to the international level for student science and engineering projects.
As bills in the Iowa House and Senate propose major changes to funding and oversight of Iowa’s area education agencies, educators at private schools wonder how special education services for students at their schools — and other AEA services — would be affected.
Iowa boasts a higher six-year graduation rate across its public universities -- 73 percent -- than any state in the nation, a meaningful statistic for a region facing growing workforce demands and a higher education landscape facing mounting pressure and skepticism from lawmakers.
University of Iowa grad Steve Grubbs’ company is global leader in use of virtual reality
Mental health isn’t just a concern among students. Faculty and staff across Iowa and the nation are facing heightened mental health needs too – both personally and professionally, in their role responding to and managing the student distress they see in their classrooms.
In collaboration with Iowa’s 15 community colleges, lawmakers are moving through measure to change — for the first time in 20 years — the way state general aid is distributed across the campuses.
As part of their science and Language Arts classes, teams of City View High School students researched different ways soil can naturally fight climate change in Eastern Iowa and became experts for the expo, which was hosted Thursday at the downtown Cedar Rapids school.
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