K-12 Education

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.

Des Moines police arrested four more teenagers on charges of murder Tuesday in the March 7 shooting death of a 15-year-old outside a Des Moines high school.

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.

Less than six months after dropping the mascot “Mohawks,” the Mason City School Board has approved a student-led suggestion for the district's new mascot: the River Hawks.

Cedar Rapids group raises money for Waypoint Services, a nonprofit that offers housing services, domestic violence victims services and childcare.

Each grade level collected a different item for the box with a goal of putting together 60 bedtime boxes, which they met and celebrated with a pajama party last month.