The House education committee is charged with forging consensus on the nation's education policy. But at a recent meeting, ...

Shuttering the Education Department and dividing its budget among the states would allow for more local control as states ...

Metro High School was among eight others in eastern Iowa -- and 28 in the state -- to win the STEM Businesses Engaging ...

Chief political reporter Amanda Rooker recaps a busy week at the statehouse, covering everything from protest arrests to school attendance and carbon capture pipelines.

Hundreds of Iowa schools have not removed any books under the law, according to an exclusive Des Moines Register statewide survey. Previously, educators have cited the lack of rules as one reason for ...

Iowa’s K-12 public schools would receive a 2.25% general state funding increase in the next school year under a proposal ...

DES MOINES — Iowa’s K-12 public schools would receive a 2.25 percent general state funding increase in the next school year ...

House Speaker Pat Grassley said House Republicans are proposing legislation that sets the State Supplemental Aid rate at 2.25% in the upcoming fiscal year — a slightly higher proposal than the 2% ...

Top Republicans praised the Texas Senate's passage of "school choice" legislation as the proposal advances to the House where it was defeated in 2023.

Iowa Capital Dispatch won the prize for “Best News Story” for the second year in a row, as well as the top award for coverage ...

State funding for the Double up Food Bucks Program, a one-to-one match to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...