Ankeny, Iowa – Today U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will visit the Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny, Iowa, to release the Obama Administration’s blueprint for transforming Career and Technical Education (CTE), by reauthorizing …
Continue Reading →IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A small Iowa school district must reinstate a former principal after the Iowa Supreme Court declined to review a decision that concluded she was improperly fired, attorneys on both sides of the case said Wednesday.
Monica Ro…
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A troubled Iowa schools group lost more than $1 million in public funds on risky investments, wrongly claimed $500,000 in federal grant money and improperly allowed executives to keep computer equipment when they resigned, a…
Continue Reading →IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A troubled Iowa schools group lost more than $1 million in public funds on risky investments, wrongly claimed $500,000 in federal grant money and improperly allowed executives to keep computer equipment when they resigned, a…
Continue Reading →As the U.S. House of Representatives gets ready to approve a Republican budget for 2013 that would cut taxes and federal spending, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin is offering a countermeasure that would spend more money on things like education and workforce tr…
Continue Reading →DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bus drivers in some of Iowa’s largest school districts face charges or have been convicted in the past decade of offenses including drunken driving, operating a vehicle with a suspended license and careless driving.
The Des…
Some families in Tulsa, Okla., recently received a brochure that surely grabbed their attention. The title? “Will your child pass third grade?”
Produced by the 15,000-student Union district, the handout explains the state’s pending reading requireme…
“Boneless lean beef trimmings” are shown before packaging. The debate over “pink slime” in chopped beef is hitting critical mass. The term, adopted by opponents of “lean finely textured beef,” describes the processed trimmings cleansed with ammonia a…
Continue Reading →“Boneless lean beef trimmings” are shown before packaging. The debate over “pink slime” in chopped beef is hitting critical mass. The term, adopted by opponents of “lean finely textured beef,” describes the processed trimmings cleansed with ammonia a…
Continue Reading →Published Online: March 14, 2012
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawmakers have sent to the governor a bill increasing penalties for failing to heed school bus warning devices.
Kadyn’s law is named after Kadyn Halverson, a 7-year-old girl who was killed…