Online classes would be ‘last resort’ if district has more snow days this school year
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Online classes would be ‘last resort’ if district has more snow days this school year
The University of Iowa will keep housing students in its 56-year-old Mayflower Residence Hall — at least for one more year — despite having announced a year ago plans to sell the “last-chosen and first-transferred-from residence hall.”
But the The Iowa Senate was expected to advance Reynolds’ original proposal, with an amendment.
To kick off its 114-year-old Drake Relays on April 21, the university is holding its 45th annual “beautiful bulldog contest” -- with the winning glowering canine earning a year-long rein as the Drake Relays mascot.
Exemplifying the position’s charge to represent the “diversity of the people and poetry of Iowa,” University of Northern Iowa English Professor Vince Gotera has been named the state’s fifth poet laureate.
Limited seats available for workshop series being hosted at South East Junior High School in Iowa City by nationally-recognized innovator
Half-day, full-day and programs with before- and after-school care now enrolling for 2024-25 school year.
A House education subcommittee Monday voted along party lines to advance a proposal that would bring meaningful change to the Board of Regents, the universities they oversee, and the students those institutions serve – including through tuition-hike caps and DEI-related “directives.”
The legislation also would require Iowa’s 11 largest school districts — among them Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Council Bluffs, Iowa City, and Sioux City — to have at least one private security guard or school resource officer in each district high school.
Also, after months of closure to facilitate structural work, the domes at Taft Middle School in Cedar Rapids have been reopened.
The consultant, District Management Group, to perform an equitable staffing analysis to improve operational efficiency, resource allocation across schools
Most of the 11 private schools listed as ‘new’ in 2023 by the Iowa Department of Education have been operating for years
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