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Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a bill into law expanding the options to create state-funded charter schools in Iowa.

Many Iowa school districts are keeping mask requirements in place even after state health officials recommended late last week that face coverings should be optional and that COVID-19 ought to be treated like other childhood illnesses.

A bill expanding Iowa’s public-funded charter school system passed in the Iowa Senate, sending the bill to Gov. Kim Reynolds. The proposal was one of her school choice priorities for the legislative session.

A bill creating an independent system of publicly-funded charter schools took another step forward in the Iowa legislature Thursday.

In an after-midnight vote, the Iowa House passed a bill to provide public funding for charter schools run by groups unaffiliated with local school districts.

Republican lawmakers on the House Government Oversight Committee spent nearly two hours Tuesday questioning and berating Ames school officials about classroom materials related to their “Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action.”

A look back at how education in Iowa was disrupted when the pandemic struck one year ago.

Bills that would expand charter schools in Iowa and create scholarships that could be spent on tuition at private schools are advancing as separate proposals in the Iowa House.

School board members could be removed from office for violating state law, and superintendents could face stronger professional sanctions, under a bill advanced by an Iowa Senate subcommittee.

The Iowa House has passed a $27.2 million funding package for schools to cover costs associated with holding classes during the COVID-19 pandemic.