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An amendment to the bill would make businesses are civilly liable if a student worker is injured on the job.

As lawmakers considered several restrictions on transgender youth in Iowa schools, House Speaker Pat Grassley said legislation banning gender-affirming health care for minors may also come up this legislative session.

DES MOINES — Republican state lawmakers continued Thursday to advance bills opponents say target and discriminate against Iowa’s LGBTQ community.

Gov. Kim Reynolds’ version of a bill banning school curriculum and class instruction related to gender identity covers kindergarten through third grade.

Republican state lawmakers continued Thursday to advance bills opponents say target and discriminate against Iowa’s LGBTQ community.

State lawmakers are often slow to act, but they can move quickly when voters make them feel the heat. Consider Iowa, where Gov. Kim Reynolds recently signed the nation’s third publicly funded education choice program for all K-12 students, following West Virginia and Arizona. This represents a stunning reversal. A smaller proposal failed to clear the legislature last year. What changed?

Gov. Kim Reynolds recently signed an education choice program for all K-12 students in Iowa. What changed?

If it’s not your full-time job to follow education policy debates you’ve perhaps been struck by the sudden and dramatic string of state-level victories rung up by school choice proponents.

Vivek Ramaswamy leaves the boardroom for a barn in Iowa to test out his businessman-turned-culture-warrior brand on rural conservative voters.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the private school scholarships law just 2 weeks after she called it her top priority in her Condition of the State address.