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In light of historic budget cuts recently implemented by Gov. Chet Culver due to a downturn in revenue projections, the state should increase its investment in postsecondary education for low-income adults. The investment would improve economic prospects for Iowa families, and in the process boost the state budget, according to the nonpartisan group Iowa Policy [...]

The Des Moines Independent Community School District, which has more than 30,000 enrolled students, will take the biggest hit from Gov. Chet Culver’s order to cut 10 percent across-the-board from the budget.

More than half, or around $332 million, of the 10 percent across-the-board budget cut ordered Thursday by Gov. Chet Culver will come from the state’s department of education.

A U.S. House bill touted as the most sweeping overhaul of federal student loan programs since inclusion of the GI Bill was passed last week with the Iowa delegation splitting on party lines.

Though President Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren today would have likely generated some controversy no matter when it had been scheduled, the White House seemed to pick a particularly bad day for it, at least for Iowans.
As Obama delivered his live address today, hundreds of school board members and candidates were trying to win elections [...]

Student activists at Iowa State University want their school to alter its coal ash disposal method by the end of 2009, and they began their campaign Monday to make that happen.

A joint study of earmarks from the 110th Congress shows Iowa State University receiving the fifth highest benefit from lawmakers, trailing four institutions of higher learning in Alabama and Mississippi.

Even the worst of times can be teaching moments. That’s the thinking behind a collection of advice and best practices developed and distributed by the Iowa Association of School Boards.

Though reforming the U.S. health care system will likely produce controversial answers to a long list of complicated questions, one proposed solution to the nation’s worsening nurse shortage is alluringly simple.

Iowa and Georgia will soon be the benefactors of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help increase support for community libraries from within their local communities.