Education Policy News

VINTON – The Vinton-Shellsburg school district is looking at levy increases and cuts as it prepares its fiscal 2011 budget. …

INDEPENDENCE – The Independence school board voted to close East Elementary School last night, a decision that will move the …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Thousands of dollars were embezzled over two years from the Cedar Rapids school district by an employee, …

Iowa City school district staff would be cut and veteran teachers would be encouraged to retire under proposed budget reductions …

Students might want to think twice before celebrating another snow day. Days that are missed must be made up eventually. …

IOWA CITY – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner will give the 2009-10 Distinguished Lecture at the University of Iowa Tuesday, …

School board members in Mount Vernon are cautiously optimistic about an upcoming vote that will continue to inject $280,000 a …

The Cedar Rapids Community School District has confirmed make-up days for the four weather-related school cancellation days so far this …

John Bacon is no stranger to school bullies. An educator and father of four, he encounters the issue regularly — …

The bus garage on the site of the Cedar Rapids school district’s planned administrative service center will be demolished to …

Iowalive, a group of Cedar Rapids activists, is suggesting the Cedar Rapids school district close at least three elementary schools …

Negotiations between the Iowa City school district and the teachers union began Monday with the two sides, not surprisingly, disagreeing …