K-12 Education

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.

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.

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.

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

Hours of practice lead dedicated scholars to championships

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

The bill calls for Iowa to adopt LEAD-K, a nationwide initiative to raise awareness of deaf or hard-of-hearing children’s experiences in language learning and to work toward school readiness and sufficient language skills by providing access to both American Sign Language and English.

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.