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Discusses implementing programs that ensure school safety and academic success, covering what makes up Iowa's program as an example. Demonstrates Iowa's success via participation in standard LEA implementation activities and their Safe School Certification Program as well as via completing items on an implementation checklist.
Discusses key takeaways from the State Policy Academy focused on foster youth in postsecondary education, including approaches taken by Colorado, Iowa, Oregon and Texas, and considerations to assist policy development supporting foster youth attainment.
Designed to help stakeholders better understand the policy environment surrounding current school discipline practices in our country. This compendium provides information on school discipline laws and administrative regulations for the United States, including the 50 States, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico.
Assists school leaders to improve school climate, which includes guidance to develop a plan to improve adult-student relationships. The toolkit provides a picture of a sample plan and the step-by-step process for successfully creating a plan to improve the climate in a school.
Includes information for schools that want to get moving right away to improve school climate. This toolkit contains an implementation readiness guide, sample plan, and details six steps that can move a school through a change process.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
DES MOINES, Iowa (KWWL) -- Using some federal COVID relief funds, Governor Kim Reynolds announced Tuesday that the Iowa Department of Education would award more than $8.6 million in grants to 64 school districts looking to improve their mental health services.
Iowa's three public universities are aiming to raise student retention rates in an attempt to help them earn degrees faster, with new goals approved by the Board of Regents on Thursday. The percentages the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa are attempting to reach are standard when compared to neighboring higher education institutions.
Iowa State University is investing more than $10 million into a series of projects to kick off the university's vision of itself over the next decade — a vision that includes better retention of underrepresented students, renovated child care facilities and a unified structure for online programs.
Among undergraduate students at UI, 52.8% reported moderate psychological distress and 21.7% reported serious psychological distress, according to the National College Health Assessment III undergraduate summary report in the spring of 2021. According to the report, 33.1% of students reported receiving psychological or mental health services in the last 12 months. Of that population, 41.3% reported receiving on-campus services.