Education

  IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school board has set aside plans to redraw some school boundaries, a process that had been debated the past couple of months. The board Tuesday night voted 7-0 to follow Superintendent Stephen Murley’s recommendation that there be no changes in elementary school and junior high attendance zones in [...]

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An environmental research center at the University of Iowa has received a $7.9 million grant to help support research of rural health issues. The Environmental Health Sciences Research Center is getting a five-year grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to help local researchers study the effect on [...]

IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school district will seek another appraisal for the Roosevelt Elementary School property in hopes to getting more money for it. The district plans to sell the property, with the school closing at the end of this school year. The school board decided to seek bids for the property rather [...]

  MARION — What if an entire high school took a day off from academics to help out in the community? That’s what 400 students at Marion High School set out to learn Monday with their second “One Day in May” day of service. Lots of students volunteer their time around the community, but this [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — At Monday night’s board meeting, Cedar Rapids school board members approved a 3.69 percent “total package” increase in pay and benefits for the district’s 2012-13 teachers and nurses. That’s just slightly below the Iowa Association of School Boards’ statewide average of 3.7 percent. “We have to remember that we’re a district of [...]

University of Iowa officials on Friday named Chaden Djalali as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, effective Aug. 15. Djalali is professor and chairman of the department of physics and astronomy at the University of South Carolina. He was one of three finalists to visit the UI campus in the dean search [...]

Complaints to two state agencies about for-profit colleges have risen dramatically in recent years, enough so that it’s become a top priority for the Iowa Attorney General’s Office. Many of the student complaints involve billing practices or student loan issues, according to data from the Attorney General’s Office and the Iowa College Student Aid Commission. [...]

DES MOINES — Next year’s typical school day won’t be much different from this year’s for most of Iowa’s K-12 students, despite the education reform package passed by the Legislature last week. Gov. Terry Branstad is expected to sign the legislation, even though he and Department of Education Director Jason Glass agree that it falls [...]

WASHINGTON — There is a timeworn saying in Washington that even in the most difficult negotiations, lawmakers will always strike a deal once they hear planes taking off from National Airport for the weekend. That didn’t work last week on Capitol Hill, as the Senate grappled with how to keep student loan interest rates from [...]

  CEDAR RAPIDS — Students at Kirkwood Community College will pay $5 more per credit hour in tuition next year, a 3.9 percent increase approved unanimously by the school’s board of trustees Thursday. The increase will make tuition $133 per credit hour next year for Kirkwood’s more than 17,000 students. State funding was favorable for [...]