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Students at Dubuque School District’s high schools have a new 'brain health retreat' rooms to help address their mental health needs.

An Iowa school district is adding a dual language program for next year’s kindergarteners.

Ben Kieffer and his guests have a number of quick conversations about the biggest news stories of the week.

The report showed K-12 enrollment across the state dropped by close to 6,000 students from the year, the first time numbers had dropped since the 2011 school year.

Ottumwa High School will soon add a new program to its curriculum. The addition was due to student interest.

The only refugee resettlement agency in eastern Iowa has won the grant to plan and create the state’s new English Language Learner program.

The Ankeny school board will have three new members based on Tuesday’s election results, including two who have said parents should be able to choose whether kids wear masks in school.

As culture war issues froth into school board meetings, how are political issues shaping these nonpartisan offices? Hear about what we are seeing statewide, whether we’ve seen it before and what impact it is having on these local offices.

The AAP said in the document filed with the court that their review of the research and the experiences of the front-line pediatric practitioners “prove beyond any doubt that universal mask policies in schools significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19 in school populations.” The group said the prevalence of pediatric COVID-19 has skyrocketed since the school year began, with 20 percent of all child cases since the beginning of the pandemic diagnosed between Aug. 13 and Sept. 16.

A big week for Iowa Politics as Iowa's 88-year-old senator announces he's back on the campaign trail.