This week, citizen scientists throughout the southeast region will take 15 minutes to help make a headcount of the buzzing, scuttling little critters that help our flowers bloom and gardens grow. The counting is part of the University of Georgia’s Great Southeast Pollinator Census. The event, which takes place this Friday and Saturday, started eight […]
Gov. Brian Kemp hopes a newly appointed panel can help clean up a financial mess in Dublin City Schools. Kemp suspended all seven of the board’s members via an executive order Monday and appointed five local leaders to help select temporary replacements. Their dismissal followed a unanimous recommendation from the state Board of Education issued […]
NEWTON — U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in Iowa Monday schools discourage students from physical activity and are poisoning them with unhealthy food — issues he said federal and state policies are working to address with the reinstatement of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Kennedy visited the […]
Black students and those with disabilities are much more likely to be arrested or referred to law enforcement than other students in Iowa schools with school resource officers, an American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa report published Thursday found. School resource officers, or SROs, are sworn law enforcement officers assigned to work at K-12 schools, […]
