Education

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.

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.

Proposal now goes to the Senate, which has another plan

Mediapolis Republican asks how many ‘illegal immigrants’ each campus has