Education

(PUBLISHED: Northwest Junior High students leave school at the end of the day on Monday in Coralville. A committee researching boundaries discussed last night options to relieve crowding in the Iowa City school district.) Northwest Junior High students leave school at the end of the day on Monday, May 7, 2001, in Coralville.

I.C. school district backs off redistricting plans

Redistricting was proposed in early March to ease overcrowding

  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 [...]

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U of I gets $7.9 million environmental research grant

Funds will help support research of rural health issues

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 [...]

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Community members in attendance at the school board meeting held at the Central Administration Building in Iowa City on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. With a 7-0 vote, the school board voted to close down the current Roosevelt Elementary School and replace it with a new school a few miles away. (Chris Mackler/The Gazette).

Iowa City school district will get second appraisal for elementary school

District plans to sell the property; the school is closing at the end of this academic year

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 [...]

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Bradi Burnell, (left), Derek Lochner, and Foulks, all seniors at Marion High School, finishes painting a mural on the side of the water tower on the corner of 5th Ave. and 31st Street, in Marion, Iowa, on Monday, May 14, 2012. Marion High School students participated in this day long service project by going out to different parts of the community to perform community service such as pull weeds, paint, and spend time with the elderly. (Nikole Hanna/The Gazette-KCRG)

Service day sends 400 students into community

Marion High School students provided assistance to more than 22 local community groups

  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 [...]

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Cedar Rapids board approves teacher raises

The total cost of all salaries and benefits for teachers will be $100.5 million next year

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 [...]

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The Old Capitol and the Pentacrest, east side, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 9/28/08 stock phooto.

Djalali to start as University of Iowa liberal arts dean in August

Will replace longtime dean Linda Maxson

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 [...]

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Nursing instructor Jessica Manning shows the life-like actions of the infant that is part of the new NOELLE maternity simulator used to instruct nursing students at Kaplan University in Cedar Rapids. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)

Complaints in Iowa grow with expansion of for-profit colleges

Cedar Rapids school says numbers are small compared to total enrollment 1

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. [...]

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Practical impact of education reforms muted

Some of the most controversial proposals were chucked overboard

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 [...]

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Iowa delegation frustrated by student loan impasse

Democrats and Republicans agree the rates should remain low but disagree on how to pay the $5.9 billion cost

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 [...]

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KIRKWOOD.120198.BR-- (PUBLISHED, SUCCESS: This aerial view of the Kirkwood Community College campus at the south edge of Cedar Rapids was taken in December. As the file photograph on the facing page shows, the site was all open ground when construction started in 1968. This Gazette file photo shows the scene in March of 1968 as grading started on the site of Kirkwood Community College. ) Aerial of Kirkwood Community College campus.

Kirkwood board approves 3.9 percent tuition increase

Tuition will now be $133 per credit hour next year for more than 17,000 students

  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 [...]

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