Iowa schools will be required to show a fetal development video to students in grades five through 12 as part of human growth and development curriculum after the Iowa State Board of Education confirmed the implementation of a law passed last year.
A fourth charter school — called Horizon Science Academy — received approval Thursday from the Iowa State Board of Education to open this fall in Cedar Rapids.
Clean water advocate and author Chris Jones formally launched his campaign for Iowa secretary of agriculture Thursday with a sharp critique of the state’s farm economy — calling for a “retreat from ethanol” and a fundamental shift in how Iowa produces food in order to improve water quality.
Staff Sgts. Edgar Torres-Tovar and William Howard were honored during the annual address, given Thursday by Iowa National Guard Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Stephen Osborn
At the center of a legislative proposal to require undergraduate students at Iowa’s public universities to take courses on American history and American government is the question of what role lawmakers should have in a public university classroom.
Two years after changing Iowa Code to strip presidential-selection power from members of a university community, Republican legislators want to rewrite that amendment to clarify their intentions -- after a recent Iowa State University search concerned some lawmakers.
Watch as Major General Stephen E. Osborn, Adjutant General of the Iowa National Guard, delivers the annual address to a joint session of the Iowa Legislature.
Two teachers, including one in Manchester, are suing the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners and its executive director over complaints of unethical conduct filed against them.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer tours Western Iowa Community College in Council Bluffs and Union Pacific dispatch center in Omaha.
A 96-unit multi family housing development is planned for Jordan Street on the south side of North Liberty. It is the first project in North Liberty history to receive workforce housing tax credits through the Iowa Economic Development Authority.
House Republicans’ latest legislative proposal would ban the use of eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipeline projects
Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is overstating the need for U.S. control of Greenland, while emphasizing the importance of diplomacy and reaffirming his long-standing support for the independence of the Federal Reserve amid a Justice Department inquiry into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
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