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Iowa City’s school taxes to increase 8 cents from previous fiscal year. But under the state's rollback formula, most property owner’s school tax levy will decrease slightly — around a $44 reduction for the year.

The mural depicts equity and inclusion and was created by students in the 2021 Leadership for Five Seasons Youth Class

District setting aside extra money to cover costs in proposed $317 million budget

Linn-Mar’s declining enrollment, attributed to pandemic and derecho, impacts proposed budget

For example: “14 Under 14” recipient Dafne Gonzalez, 8, a third-grader at Hoover Community School, translates for a Spanish-speaking peer in her classroom.

About 30 students came to the after-school rally Friday opposing a new Iowa law banning transgender girls and women in Iowa from competing in sports according to their gender identity.

The Mount Vernon Community School District is one of 38 school districts to receive up to $40,000 in a state grant from the science, technology, engineering and math Business Engaging Students and Teachers program.

Edith Dawson advanced by winning the regional spelling bee after correctly spelling “prehensile.” She’ll compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in June, representing Iowa.

Fields of Fun child care center opening in southwest Cedar Rapids in former Kids Inc. location, has capacity for 275 children, from infants to seventh-graders.

Sixty percent of K-5 graders met reading benchmarks for their grade level during the winter of 2021-22.

Harrison and Madison elementary school attendance zones will also be combined by the fall of 2025.

Meals were made free for all students during the pandemic. Since all meals became free, schools have seen an increase in the number of students taking school meals, which includes fruits and vegetables, milk and whole grains.

Deadline nears for the college, apprenticeship scholarships for young people who used services at Tanager Place

“Everyone should be properly vetted to make sure they’re no threat to our national security,” the Republican senator said. “For the emergency we’re in, what’s happening now in Ukraine, I think we have a situation where for humanitarian purposes we have to be helpful.”

The free, six-week Freedom School program is being offered this summer to 60 students going into sixth, seventh and eighth grades.