Ty Rushing

Some Oskaloosa parents are building an opposition movement to the school district’s new curriculum proposal in part because they think it includes critical race theory—a subject not taught in any Iowa school and banned last year—and other items they deem inappropriate. One of the Oskaloosa parents, who opposes the Wit & Wisdom curriculum being considered,…

Federal dollars continue to flow into Iowa as Gov. Kim Reynolds announced $38 million in funding for three water infrastructure projects Friday morning, including up to $15 million toward the Iowa Confluence (ICON) Water Trails Project in Des Moines. The money comes from the Water Infrastructure Fund (WIF), a state program financed through Iowa’s allocation…

A group of Iowa House members want to brighten up people’s day by making daylight saving time permanent in the Hawkeye State. HF 2015 would end the practice of forwarding clocks an hour starting at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March before rolling the hour back at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday…

A seventh Iowan was charged for taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. According to the Sioux City Journal, Kenneth Rader, 53, of Sioux City was arrested Thursday and was charged in the US District Court for the District of Columbia with four charges: knowingly entering or…

The Fairfield City Council passed a much-debated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statement in a split vote Monday night, but it took a big push from the city’s LGBTQ community to get the innocuous resolution approved. Alex Thole had not publicly come out as a transgender male, but the Fairfield High School student thought it…

A leader of the Fairfield Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee was just as shocked as outsiders by councilperson Judy Ham’s conspiracy-theory-laden tangent at a January city council meeting that equated an equity statement with pedophilia and sex trafficking. Fairfield DEI Committee Co-Chair Adrien Logsdon said her group initially presented the 177-word statement—which could be…

A dozen Iowa House Democrats want to prohibit book-banning in Iowa’s schools and establish a “right to read” in the Iowa Constitution. HJ 2001 was introduced Jan. 14 and proposes creating an amendment to the Iowa Constitution that prevents the Iowa Legislature from restricting books or other written materials being available to students in the…

Iowa Rep. Sandy Salmon wants history and social study teachers to teach both sides of any issue deemed controversial—or, just don’t teach it at all. The Republican from Janesville introduced a bill Thursday she thinks will provide Iowa students a “nonpartisan education.” Under Salmon’s proposal, teachers can’t be asked by any state agency, school district,…

The Iowa Department of Education would have to sign off on every textbook, article, video or other educational material used in a public school’s social studies class, with a public review process for each following it, under a new proposal from a group of Iowa House Republicans introduced today. Ten GOP lawmakers introduced HF 2060…