PreK-12 schools

A drop in enrollment at Iowa K-12 schools will complicate the state funding debate in the next legislative session.

The Des Moines School Board decided to bring all grades back in-person under the district’s hybrid plan on Monday after the Iowa Department of Education denied the district’s request to keep most grades online for another week.

Hamburg students helped build a home for a family who lost their own to the 2019 Missouri River flooding.

In 1868, Iowa was the first state to desegregate its public schools. But many schools essentially remained segregated for more than a century after. And it’s still noticeable today.

A growing number of Iowa school district are asking the state Department of Education to approve waivers allowing them to go virtual in response to rising COVID-19 case numbers in their counties and among students and staff.

Des Moines Public Schools is asking the Iowa Department of Education for a virtual learning waiver as coronavirus cases surge in Polk County. But the district is also moving ahead to bring high school students back to class in-person for the first time on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa’s largest school district, is welcoming back elementary students in-person Monday morning for the first time since classes started last month.

Jennifer Crawford died from complications of the coronavirus on October 3. Her family said she was exposed while working at school a month earlier.

New quarantine guidance from the Iowa Department of Public Health has caused some schools in northwest Iowa counties with high infection rates to take a look at requiring masks.

Fremont County's two-week rate of coronavirus infections is above 17 percent. Hamburg Community School District doesn't have enough staff to teach classes in-person next week after four staff members tested positive for COVID-19 and six are quarantining because of exposure.