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Members of the public may join remotely DES MOINES - The Iowa State Board of Education will hold its regular meeting on Thursday, Jan. 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. A short information session will be held prior to the start of the meeting from 9 to 9:20 a.m. Both the information session and meeting will be held i…

Eighty-nine students from Iowa have been named 2021 candidates for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by executive order of the president, to recognize and honor some of our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors. In 1979, th…

STORM LAKE – When Superintendent Stacey Cole arrived at the Storm Lake School District three years ago, she wanted to know if the district’s Teacher Leadership and Compensation (TLC) fit like a leather glove. She found that it was more like a stretched-out cotton mitten. That’s not to discredit those involved …

OSCEOLA – What can be said about the state’s Teacher Leadership and Compensation (TLC) program? That it teams up mentors with new teachers to make them better educators quicker? Or that students’ academic deficiencies disappear faster? Or that it enables teachers to better problem solve anything from academics to…

Iowa schools have the opportunity to receive a new water bottle filling station through the Rethink Your Drink program. Selected schools will have a drinking fountain replaced with a new Elkay water bottle filling station. Applications will be accepted through Feb. 5. To apply, visit deltadentalia.com/foundation/gra…

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federally funded program that provides meal reimbursement to child care centers, adult day care centers, emergency shelters, before and after school programs, and child development homes. The program is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, and adminis…

DES MOINES — The Iowa Department of Education today announced that the state has received nearly $345 million in federal relief for PK-12 schools through a fund to address costs incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The amount is Iowa’s share of the more than $54 billion in emergency relief provided in the Elem…

To say 2020 was challenging is an understatement Noreen Bush After 2020, every superintendent in the state will have stories to tell. Noreen Bush, however, probably has the biggest story to tell. No, really. Sure, everyone had to deal with the pandemic and all its challenges and quirks. And a good …

Members of the public may join remotely DES MOINES - Members of the state’s Computer Science Work Group will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 12, to work on recommendations to strengthen computer science instruction and develop a campaign to promote computer science to K-12 students and families across the state. The meeting…

Since Iowa switched its approach on working with infants through age 3 who are displaying developmental delays, education officials say they are seeing a vast improvement in progress. The approach puts parents’ in the driver’s seat in working with their young children. Through Iowa’s Early ACCESS system, pa…