PreK-12 schools

U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher blocked parts of Iowa’s LGBTQ instruction ban but upheld other sections in a ruling issued Thursday. He made a distinction between mandatory lessons and extracurriculars, but there are still questions on what is considered instruction.

In the last 50 years, female students have been able to catch up, and often surpass, male students on many markers of academic success. Now, what can be done to help boys succeed in school?

The bill, proposed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and amended by lawmakers, would use $16 million of existing child care funding for new partnerships that provide a full day of care to 4-year-olds in preschool, among several other changes.

An extracurricular event growing across the United States is getting high school and collegiate students thinking talking, and working together on some of the toughest moral issues of our time.

Hundreds of Iowa farmers, schools and food banks planned on federal dollars this year to support local food purchases. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut both programs in March. Iowans across the supply chain are looking for ways to fill in the gaps.

Programs like Chat GPT started infiltrating classrooms as the latest tool students use to cheat. However, schools have found that banning these programs isn't the answer.

Reading proficiency for fourth and eighth graders has been on the decline since before the pandemic.

In 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, decided she needed to teach her students what discrimination really felt like.

After multiple budget cuts, Des Moines Public Schools wants to staunch the flow of students transferring out — along with their funding.

The disruption experienced during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic has many legacies, one of them a decline in school attendance.