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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.

As medical services continue to decline in rural Iowa, the legislature and rural communities have yet to address the root causes of the shortage.

A new Web site offering from the Iowa Department of Education provides state educators unfettered access to research findings.

The Linn County sales tax vote isn’t the only thing to be decided by voters Tuesday.  Davenport residents are deciding whether to use a third of the profits from the city’s local option sales tax to pay college tuition for local students in an effort to draw more families and businesses to the eastern Iowa [...]

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, says he’s proud of what he believes the federal economic stimulus package will provide, but believes more should be done to improve school facilities.