The delayed start of the school year in an eastern Iowa district has been pushed back even farther after the discovery of asbestos. Due to a construction project, next Tuesday, September 6, had been set as the first day of school in North Linn district, but...
A move to get rid of the state law that forbids schools from starting the fall term before August 23 has stalled in the Iowa House. The tourism industry objects, arguing families quit traveling and they lose student employees if school starts earlier in August. "Every...
School's already started in some Iowa communities and administrators are wrestling with demands from parents on both ends of the mask debate as the delta variant of COVID-19 surges. Classes don't start for a few weeks in Webster City, where superintendent Mandy Ross...
Efforts to repair the derecho damaged city of Cedar Rapids continue to move forward as more power has come back on and city leaders reported Tuesday that most traffic signals are working again. The city also shortened its curfew -- starting it at midnight instead of...
Iowa schools will be able to start fall classes as early as Monday, August 24 this year. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Gronstal this morning withdrew his hold on a bill that will set August 23 as the earliest date schools may start fall classes and the governor will...
Governor Terry Branstad says there's no reason to add an accommodations for year-round high schools in the bill that would resolve the controversy about when Iowa schools may start classes this fall. "We don't have any year-round high schools in Iowa, so there's not...
A bill that would have set "on or after August 23" as the school start date in Iowa has been tabled in the Iowa Senate. On the 10th of March, 32 of the 50 members of the senate voted in favor of letting school boards decide when school starts in the fall. This...
The Iowa Senate has voted to let local school officials decide when the fall semester may begin. Governor Branstad's education director issued a memo in December telling school districts no more automatic waivers would be granted. It means schools must follow state...
Republicans on a House Committee have voted to set "on or after August 23" as the time frame for Iowa's K-12 public schools to start the fall semester. Iowa's tourism industry has complained for years about schools starting classes earlier and earlier in August....
The chairman of the education committee in the Iowa House believes he's got a compromise that could end the controversy over when Iowa schools should start classes in August. Representative Ron Jorgensen, a Republican from Sioux City, has drafted a proposal that would...