Federal law requires that all students receive a free and appropriate public education. If masks are not required, some medically fragile students’ right to that education will be violated.
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Federal law requires that all students receive a free and appropriate public education. If masks are not required, some medically fragile students’ right to that education will be violated.
GuideLink Center is not the answer to all the problems in our system, but it is a significant contribution to the solution
Conservatives in state legislatures across the country have taken phony piety to new depths.
With all of the noise coming from Washington, D.C., and a new variant of an old pandemic raging, it’s easy to forget closer to home we have school board elections on Nov. 2.
Monarch Research partners with school districts to distribute native trees
Adrian Anson was the Iowa-born “King of Swing” in early professional baseball. His records were not exceeded until the likes of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.
In Iowa, we have decreased our greenhouse gas emissions by about 5 percent over the past 10 years. But that is not nearly fast enough.
The day after the storm hit, I was on the ground to survey the damage personally. I spoke directly with President Donald Trump to explain the scope of the devastation — a story the national press was not telling.
City employees and community volunteers continue going door to door to help identify remaining obstacles residents are facing in derecho recovery and to refer them to available resources.
Finding affordable, adequate and safe housing has become even more difficult in our community — especially for those in this most vulnerable population
It will take the entire community working together to restore what has been lost so that the next generation can access these essential benefits. We all can help by planting native Iowa trees, shrubs and landscape plants.
The post-traumatic stress was real, and a lot of it had to do with loss of trees we had grown attached to — some of which landed on roofs and greeted people inside their homes when they fell.
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