Education

After six years without competing, an unseeded UI resident doctor took down the three seed and then the two seed at a “last chance qualifier“ tournament to earn himself a spot vying for a chance to compete at the Olympics in Paris this summer.

Taking matters into its own hands — following the U.S. Department of Education’s tumultuous and confused rollout of its new FAFSA — Coe College on Tuesday announced a “regent price match” aimed at providing “immediate help to Iowa students entering college for the first time in the fall.”

Instead of an originally-proposed $27.4 million major renovation of its 50-year-old Duane Banks Field – meant to “significantly improve the game-day experience” and add hundreds of seats for fans – the University of Iowa is paring down its baseball stadium upgrades, for now, “due to funding and cost concerns.”

The Yesandia group is hosting its second young adult Improv Showcase at 5 p.m. Sunday at CSPS Hall.

The addition of college and career academies to Cedar Rapids high schools — starting with freshman academies launching in the fall of 2025 — will bring real-world experience to classrooms that aligns with their future career interests.

Thomas Braverman has worked with special education students in Eastern Iowa for 35 years, helping them academically, socially and in gaining workplace readiness skills.

ACT, Inc. — long known for its standardized tests before more recently pursuing a broader mission of research, education, and college and career readiness — this week announced a major collaboration with a large California investment firm, shifting the Iowa City-based ACT from a nonprofit to for-profit company.

The governor says the new state program will help grow existing summer meal sites; critics say it will fall well short of what the federal program would have offered.