The public works funding list is light on bridge projects, but the span on Interstate 5 that fell into the Skagit River last month hangs over any talk of infrastructure.
The state Board of Education voted unanimously to approve Gov. Chris Christie's plan to seize control of the state's lowest performing school district starting June 25, the last day of school this year.
Public school students take too many tests, Gov. Pat McCrory told education leaders Wednesday, and the state needs to figure out how to lighten the load.
On Tuesday, Sen. Tom Harkin, the retiring chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released a new 1,150-page bill to update No Child Left Behind Act.
Stronger-than-expected tax collections have left the state with an extra $300 million which the state will use to fully replenish its reserves and pay down money it still owes local school districts.
Gov. Terry Branstad called the education reform bill he signed into law Monday “a turning point in Iowa history,” but it lacks many of the provisions included in the administration’s initial pitch for improved schools.
A new system for evaluating educators, announced by the state on Saturday, will reshape how teachers are hired and fired in the city. It will also have a profound effect on students, who will take part in a series of new exams designed to help administrators grade teachers in specialized subjects.
Education officials from all over the state are saying they don’t anticipate using the law, and many are adamant that the proposal won’t come up in their community.
Two pieces of new, high-profile legislation approved by the Iowa Legislature last month could result in downgraded credit ratings and higher borrowing costs in the years to come for the state’s cities and universities, the credit-rating agency Moody’s warned last week.
The state that pioneered sober high schools, and once was home to a dozen, will be down to four next month following financial woes and an inability to establish a working model for success.
The Colorado Supreme Court's reversal of the Lobato school finance lawsuit, which handed a stinging defeat Tuesday to plaintiffs who for eight years sought greater and more equitable education funding, shifted even more attention to the recently passed bill that will seek financial help for schools from voters rather than the courts.
With the evolving gender spectrum ranging those who are transgender to those who see themselves as the opposite gender, schools are having to figure out how to accommodate them.
While proponents say the new standards will better prepare students, critics worry they'll set a national curriculum for public schools rather than letting states decide what is best for their students.
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