Des Monies Register

Fewer than 40 percent of the minority students who enrolled at the University of Northern Iowa in 2001 graduated within six years, according to a new report on minority retention and graduation rates at Iowa's public universities.

Des Moines' Central Campus now offers enough college-level courses that students can earn a two-year associate of arts degree by the time they graduate from high school.

A lawsuit alleges that Iowa has failed to provide public school students with an adequate education as required by the state's constitution and code.

Graduates from Iowa's small high schools do just as well at the state's public universities as their peers from Des Moines and other urban and suburban high schools, a Des Moines Sunday Register analysis shows.

When Brian Massengale acted out in class after a fight with his girlfriend, suspension seemed inevitable. Then he was given a choice

Some lawmakers and commun- ity college professors are critical of the popular practice of Iowa high school students taking classes for college credit.

Ames, Ia. -- When Iowa State University journalism school Director Michael Bugeja asked a group of Simpson College students what inspires awe in them, he was greeted with deafening silence. After a second attempt to get a reaction generated only a feeble response, Bugeja pondered his own question and concluded: Technology creates simulated lives for too many of today's college students. In some cases, he said, they get so wrapped up in their online lives that they lose touch with reality.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa is suing the city of Davenport over an ordinance that fines parents up to $750 the third time their child is suspected of breaking a law or violating curfew.

Five Iowa school districts were given guidance Wednesday on how to replace racial desegregation policies with diversity plans to control open enrollment, but educators said they would ask legislators to decide whether more schools can create the plans.

Jacob and the nine other members of Hoyt's after-school guitar club say that without the jam sessions, they would probably just go home or hang out until their younger siblings were dismissed from the elementary school next door.

The amount of time high school athletes would be benched under Iowa's eligibility rule would change under new proposals.

LaDonna Wicklund, a longtime reading specialist in the Iowa City Community School District, knew reading was a struggle for many first- and second-graders, but wasn't sure how to help.

The Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp. can no longer distribute "Choices," a state-sponsored career information program, to junior high and high school students on one of its Web sites.

Max Rice has memorized the location and shape of every power and traffic pole in Waukee. He knows where each Iowa highway begins and ends, too.

Some Iowa lawmakers worried Monday that school districts want to use last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation to deny open-enrollment requests that siphon money from their budgets.