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

They’re embracing the president’s cost cutting commission, while Democrats struggle to find the right balance between ...

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

Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.

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 ...

CLOSING THE SCHOOL GIVES CUSTODIANS T Classes are canceled tomorrow for a northwest Iowa elementary school due to illnesses. Laurens-Marathon's elementary school in Pocahontas County dismissed ...

The Iowa Senate Education Committee has approved a bill that would change Iowa’s limitation on when public and private schools can start in the fall. Current law says August 23 is the earliest ...