Editor’s note: IowaWatch in a year-long investigation found that although each state is required to identify the bottom-scoring 5 percent of Title I schools every three years,
Editor's note: IowaWatch in a year-long investigation found that although each state is required to identify the bottom-scoring 5 percent of Title I schools every three
Being a small school has its perks and its downsides. On the one hand, a smaller school can be more flexible, a trait that has been even more helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the COVID-19 pandemic halted in-person learning in March 2020, interest in virtual schools skyrocketed. One of two virtual schools in the state, Iowa Virtual Academy opened in 2012 with 61 students, and as of the end of last school year served about 540 students, said Steve Hoff, principal of I
When you have orbited the sun as many times as I have, people sometimes want to tap into the insights you have gathered through the years. Young journalists and newsroom
Iowa counties with the highest rates of COVID-19 infection are home to large meat packing plants. Part of a collaborative reporting project called "Lesson Plans: Rural schools grapple with COVID-19" in partnership with the Institute for Nonprofit News and several member newsrooms.
Demographics: Iowa’s immigrant children: In 1990 only 2.4 percent of Iowa kids (17,000) were from immigrant families – by 2018 that number jumped to 12 percent (84,000)
Give an extra tug on your seatbelt. The next couple of months will be rough ones.
The new school year starts in a few weeks. Not surprisingly, with the coronavirus
