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As the school year begins, Iowa’s Area Education Agencies and school districts are implementing a new law that shifts some AEA funding to school districts and moves oversight of special education from AEAs to the state.

Challenges in Iowa's education system are making it harder to retain educators.

Education experts discuss the link between writing and reading. Then Iowans share handwritten treasures that are special to them.

A federal ruling is blocking enforcement of a law that forces schools to remove books with sexual content from libraries. An appeals court will decide if that injunction stays in place.

Caleb Sinnwell, a junior at Nashua-Plainfield Jr.-Sr. High School played a pivotal role in getting the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to living and deceased members of the Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit that was kept secret for half a century after the war.

The new director of the Iowa Reading Research Center discusses k-12 reading education in Iowa, and the director of the Reel Hope Project explains how the project helps foster children find homes.

The bill signed into law Tuesday requires extra support for kids who are behind in reading and puts an emphasis on the science of reading in teacher prep programs.

The Iowa Senate is sending a bill back to the House that would make it easier for schools to allow teachers and other staff to carry firearms.

The Iowa Senate confirmed the former Virginia deputy director and education advisor in the Trump administration to lead the Iowa Department of Education.

There’s a mix of red and blue politics across the Midwest. Statehouse journalists share updates on new and proposed legislation in neighboring states.