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School board meetings have long had a reputation as unexciting, but over the past few years have become center stage for heated discussions from mask mandates to vaccinations and transgender student policy.
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This year, the state expanded the number of children a daycare worker can oversee at a given time. The idea was to give more flexibility for providers and add more child care slots for towns in need. But that additional capacity doesn’t appear to have solved the labor side of the equation.
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Two new charter schools are starting up this fall. They’re the first schools approved under a 2021 law aimed at growing the number of publicly-funded charters in Iowa.
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Three members of the first Idea Accelerator Iowa City cohort studied the child care workforce crisis by implementing a short-term test of a $4 an hour raise for participating child care workers.
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With classes back in session, university officials are providing educational materials on monkeypox in hopes of preventing infections.
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Summer break is over and kids are going back to school. The only thing some classrooms need now is a teacher. Schools across the country are putting together bonus packages to attract the educators they need.
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School lunches for all students ended in June. Now, school districts are preparing for their first year without the pandemic aid.
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The Iowa Department of Education and the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa have received a federal grant to get more local food in schools and early child care centers.
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Iowa State University’s latest area of study will prepare students to bring about climate-based solutions.