There's a new potential solution for Iowa's shortage of substitute teachers: unpaid volunteers. The Iowa Senate passed a bill Monday to allow school districts to accept volunteer substitute teachers to help with the shortage of paid teachers and substitutes in the...
In 1900, something special started to grow in Southeast Iowa and it developed into a paradise for Black Americans. For 27 years Buxton, Iowa, served as a racial utopia where segregation was not officially or socially enforced. Black citizens had the same...
Wapello County was among several in Iowa to receive millions in American Rescue Plan funding. Specifically, the funding went to the River Hills Health Center and the Southern Iowa Economic Development Association (SIEDA), both based in Ottumwa, to help them meet...
In Iowa history, trailblazers are aplenty. For an example of both extraordinary Black Iowans and women, one doesn’t have to look very hard to find Willie Stevenson Glanton. Born in Arkansas, Glanton moved to Iowa in 1951 right after her wedding to Luther T. Glanton...
The Iowa Senate Education Committee passed Senate Study Bill 3080 on Thursday, which would provide funds from public schools for students to enroll in private schools. It passed with four Democrats voting against it—Sens. Herman Quirmbach (D-Ames), Claire Celsi...
Iowa women would have more support during their pregnancies and postpartum period under a new bill approved by an Iowa Senate Human Resources subcommittee Wednesday afternoon, but there is a catch. SSB 3145 would require the department of human services to create a...
The Edna Griffin Building in downtown Des Moines commemorates the Black woman who took a discrimination case to the Iowa Supreme Court and secured a significant victory under the then-hard-to-enforce 1884 Iowa Civil Rights Act. It all started in July 1948 when...
Monday night, the Waukee School Board discussed and approved a resolution opposing the Iowa Legislature’s attempt to pass school vouchers. The resolution passed 6-1. Iowa Republicans are proposing the vouchers—now called education savings accounts—that would...
Once again, Iowa Republicans are challenging federal laws in an attempt to discriminate against a population of Iowans and deny their identities if they want to play sports. This time, Reps. Skyler Wheeler (Orange City) and Henry Stone (Forest City) are championing...
House Republicans Skyler Wheeler (Orange City) and Henry Stone (Forest City) introduced a bill Wednesday that would bar transgender girls from playing school sports. The bill is expected by several lobbyists to be fast-tracked, which means it will be debated in an...
