Education

Beth Goetz, who has served as the University of Iowa’s interim athletics director since Aug. 1, has been named the university’s permanent athletics director.

Iowa schools could offer beginning teachers a salary increase of up to $16,500 under a bill proposed by Gov. Kim Reynolds. While educators are enthusiastic about increasing teacher pay, many worry about controversial proposed changes to Iowa’s area education agencies under the same bill.

False threats were reported at Marion High School and other eastern Iowa schools Wednesday, on the same day that Iowa House lawmakers advanced a bill that would make it a felony to make a false report of a serious crime to law enforcement.

After eight years on the Board of Regents and nearly seven as its president, Michael Richards on Tuesday announced he’s stepping down from his presidential post and will leave the board at the end of April — three years before his term expires.

With mounting scientific evidence showing exercise can reduce stress, anxiety, and symptoms of depression, one Iowa State University associate professor wants to know why and how and whether the type and amount of exercise matters.

New bill prohibits agencies that provide expertise to educators and families from offering services schools have relied on for decades.

The founder of Empowering Youths of Iowa — a nonprofit that provides one-on-one mentoring to students in the Cedar Rapids Community School District — will receive the ‘Who Is My Neighbor?’ award on Sunday.

With the $28 million sale of Mercy Iowa City to the University of Iowa just over two weeks from closing, the 150-year-old community hospital’s largest bondholders are seeking court affirmation they will get the vast majority of that money “promptly.”