DES MOINES — Nearly two years after the Iowa legislature approved taxpayer-funded financial assistance for students to attend private K-12 schools, about 6.8% of students participating in the ...

Fifty-one schools saw a decrease from last school year to the beginning of this one, but in some Des Moines high schools chronic absenteeism is still over 50 percent.

Some Iowa representatives want to ban margarine and certain food dyes from schools with a bill modeled closely after a law passed last year in California.House Study Bill 5 was discussed in an ...

School District leaders want a five percent increase in SSA. At that percentage, the state would fund the district at just ...

State health officials are seeing a significant jump in the number of schools reporting high absence rates due to illness. Iowa Health and Human Services reports a boost statewide in respiratory ...

(Iowa PBS photo) The top Democrat in the Iowa House says cell phone policies for Iowa schools should be left up to school boards. Governor Kim Reynolds has introduced legislation that would ...

Dana Becker has been a sports writer in Iowa since 2000 ... He began writing for High School on SI in 2023.

Iowa’s largest school district plans an educational overhaul in response to years of declining enrollment and budget cuts. A proposal for Des Moines Public Schools would make full-day pre-school ...

Iowa's K-12 schools and child care facilities would have to disclose information that parents and guardians can exempt their child from vaccines in a set of proposed companion House and Senate ...

The bill would require a minimum standard all Iowa Schools must adopt by July 1st. It also requires schools provide a class on “effects of social media” for 6th-8th grade students.