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Steve King: Iowa's public schools were the gold standard for the country, until the "Party of Destruction" decided to fix what wasn't broken.

By Phil Houseal

The families of 324 kindergarten-through-12th grade students at Little Rock Christian Academy are accessing public taxpayer funds to pay tuition at the 1,665-student private school, according to a new state Department of Education report to lawmakers.

The state of Illinois and the cities of Naperville and Highland Park have the right to prohibit certain semi-automatic assault-type guns.

Opinion: More and better STEM education is one of the rare things that most Iowans support, writes Jeff Weld.

If ever a motto expressed pride in state autonomy, it's Iowa's: "Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain." That dedication to local control undergirds the growing opposition to Common Core — the latest effort to centralize education through national standards and tests that will define what is taught in every public school classroom in the Hawkeye State.

Two Iowa teenagers allegedly killed their teacher after anger over a bad grade, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

A Chicago substitute teacher has been arrested following allegations that the teacher got into a physical altercation Tuesday with a student.

In his 1999 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton acknowledged a key flaw in the federal government's K-12 education policy--the lack of academic accountability:

Champaign County? How interesting! A while back my interest was piqued when I read in the UDC about a presentation made to the Soroptimist Club concerning interesting women in Champaign County. When I recently read that “Interesting Women of Champaign County, Ohio Prior to 1960” would be presented on the Champaign County Library Facebook page, I made sure to watch. Library employee Gloria Malone compiled the informative 30-minute program of facts gleaned from county histories, city directo...