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Middle and high school students hard at work improving their archery technique after success at Iowa schools state tournament last month

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.

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.

West Willow Elementary students and staff are finding their stride in the first new school building in the Cedar Rapids Community School District to be built in nearly 20 years.

As part of an initiative to build the computer science education capacity at Iowa schools, the state’s area education agencies have been awarded nearly $1 million in grants to provide professional development to more than 830 educators.

The Iowa City school district eliminated most of its seclusion rooms in 2018 after a state investigation, but the rooms are still occasionally needed for student safety. The district reported a seclusion room was used 27 times in the 2020-21 school year, down 1,400 in the 2018-19 school year.

About 100 students at Boulder Peak Intermediate School in Marion were among the Iowa students casting votes and learning how democracy works.

Advocates for the program say the closure will create challenges for teen parents trying to finish high school.

State and federal guidelines call for mask use in early care and education facilities for those 2 and up. The Marion parents have a 19-month old they want to wear a mask at day care.

Early childhood educators and paraprofessionals are two career fields facing workforce shortages.

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