The family of a 2-year-old who died last year after a routine procedure to place tubes in his ears and remove his adenoids is suing an Iowa City physician for negligence by – among other things – allowing a University of Iowa medical resident to perform the surgery without the patient’s consent.
Polk Alternative Education Center to serve K-12 students with behavior challenges beginning this fall
Black students are 3.36 times more likely to be charged than white students in Cedar Rapids schools.
The Iowa state auditor has found $17,146.65 in misused or missing donations and gifts meant for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics patients and families — largely those battling cancer — and evidence a former administrative specialist was behind the misuse.
Even as total enrollment across Iowa’s public, private, and community colleges and universities fell in fall 2021, Iowa’s institutes of higher education this academic year are educating more students who identify as a minority than last year – at a combined 39,120.
Middle and high school students hard at work improving their archery technique after success at Iowa schools state tournament last month
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Green teams are interactive, educational programs in Cedar Rapids schools that empower students and staff to help the environment through waste reduction, energy and water conservation, and environmental education.
Johnnie Each, a junior at Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, is Iowa’s second student poetry ambassador. The program began in 2021, inspired by presidential inauguration poet Amanda Gorman.
64 years after joining the prestigious Association of American Universities, Iowa State University on Thursday announced it’s leaving the group.
A third of degree-seeking students recently polled by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation said they considered dropping out in the last six months – largely due to “emotional stress” – capturing the scope and gravity of mental health needs facing today’s college students, including those in Iowa.
With gas prices still hovering around record levels – and Iowa’s college and university campuses facing a budgetary quandary in the form of inflation – Kirkwood Community College is rolling out a pilot summer program to close its campus offices on Fridays.
Seven former Hawkeye football players accusing the University of Iowa Athletics Department and several coaches of racially-motivated discrimination and harassment have added Seth Wallace, linebackers coach and assistant defensive coordinator, to the list of defendants they’re suing.
Save CR Heritage launches petition to add closure of Garfield Elementary to the Cedar Rapids school board agenda in May
Linn-Mar school board’s first consideration of proposed policies to protect transgender students passes 5-2.
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