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Quick conversations to end this news week.

Some eastern Iowa school districts have already decided to delay their school start dates due to Monday's powerful derecho storm. Other districts are considering delays as they continue to assess the damage to their facilities.

Ben Kieffer speaks with a variety of experts on the latest return to learn plans for school districts across Iowa.

A proclamation signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds states that at least 50 percent of learning in core subjects must occur in-person.

 COVID-19 rapidly displaced students from classrooms to their bedrooms this spring. Looking toward the fall, everyone is asking: how can students safely…

Students around the world experienced an abrupt, anticlimactic ending to their academic year. Although students are now officially on summer break,…

After the day’s meals are done on a recent Tuesday, Gilbert Community Schools director of food service Deb Purcell shuffles through a stack of papers.…

State lawmakers are behind schedule when it comes to passing funding for K-12 education. Republican leaders in the Iowa House and Senate still have not…

The State Board of Education is reconsidering changes to the way schools use seclusion rooms to isolate students acting in a threatening way. The latest…

A western Iowa school district has failed to pass a bond for a fourth time in four years, though it significantly pared this one down. The school board…