Education

  CEDAR FALLS — Closing the Malcolm Price Lab School at the University of Northern Iowa would save the university up to $2 million annually, President Ben Allen said Wednesday in announcing he will recommend to state regents that the school cease operations June 30. During three school meetings attended by hundreds, emotional parents, students [...]

DES MOINES — Senate Democrats moved their education reform plan through the committee level Wednesday on a party-line vote after Republicans offered criticism, but no amendments, to the bill. “We didn’t have the time,” said Sen. Hamerlinck, R-Dixon, ranking member of the education committee. He said the Democrats pushed their plan through in three days, [...]

  CEDAR RAPIDS — The bargaining group that represents Kirkwood Community College faculty opened contract negotiations Tuesday with a proposal for a 6 percent salary increase next year. The negotiation team that represents the Kirkwood administration then followed with its proposal for a 0.5 percent increase to salary and a 0.6 percent increase to the [...]

UPDATE: A Hawk Alert issued by the University of Iowa has been canceled, and the subject of this morning’s alert has been located in Washington County, police said. Police were unable to confirm reports of a reported armed person in City Park this morning. The text of the alert, as sent to UI students around [...]

University of Northern Iowa leaders plan to announce their recommendations for the future of the K-12 laboratory school operated by its College of Education. President Ben Allen and Provost Gloria Gibson planned to meet Wednesday evening with parents of children attending Malcolm Price Laboratory School, which is highly regarded but has faced budget problems in [...]

A poll shows support for some education proposals backed by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad. The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll published Wednesday finds 61 percent of people think evaluating teachers annually would make a major difference in improving the education children receive. Another 26 percent think it would make a minor difference. Eleven percent say [...]

Luther College President Richard Torgerson has announced he will end his tenure as president of the college in the summer of 2013. Torgerson came to Luther in July 1999. Serving as president until the summer of 2013 will bring the end of the college’s Sesquicentennial Celebration, the fulfillment of the Sesquicentennial Fund goals and the [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — College Community is considering two central Iowa superintendents for the school district’s top leadership position. Greg DuFoe and John Speer are the finalists to replace Superintendent Dick Whitehead, who is retiring after nine years with College Community. Since 2008, DuFoe has been superintendent of Adel-DeSoto-Minburn schools, a consolidated district west of Des [...]

  CEDAR RAPIDS — Scott Bleuer’s 9 a.m. Tuesday class at Roosevelt Middle School is smaller than most with only four students, but they’re a unique group of kids. Ilke Senturk, originally from Turkey, is drawing on the interactive whiteboard, matching up words to related pictures, while Diana Bonilla of Mexico, Noela Mbata of the [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Sometime in May visitors to Kirkwood Community College may witness students jumping out of a wind turbine and rapidly coming down a rope more than 400 feet to the ground. The emergency controlled descent training will be part of the graduation for students enrolled in the college’s two-year solar and wind turbine [...]