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UI Health receives $8 million grant to bring mobile simulator training to rural areas

A new $8 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will help the University of Iowa educate health care providers and first responders in rural parts of the state on …
By BPC Staff | Feb 3, 2021
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A Closer Look: Anthony Ferguson

As West Des Moines Community Schools enter the second semester of the 2020-21 school year, Anthony Ferguson is leading efforts toward greater equity. 

 

Ferguson joined the district last fall as the first executive director …
By KATE HAYDEN | Feb 3, 2021
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Broadband bills begin making their way through Iowa Legislature; votes scheduled on child care measures

A bill that addresses Gov. Kim Reynolds’ $450 million plan to expand high-speed internet statewide by 2025 was heard by the Senate Commerce Subcommittee this week. Senate Study Bill 1089 would create a broadband grant fund to …
By BPC Staff | Feb 2, 2021
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University of Iowa seeks to block auditor’s bid for details on $1.2B utility deal

Des Moines Register: The Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments Feb. 16 from state officials seeking to block an auditor’s subpoena for records on a massive financial transaction involving the University of Iowa and two French …
By BPC Staff | Feb 2, 2021
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Iowa universities getting more federal aid from second stimulus package

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa’s three public universities are getting between 50% and 60% more federal aid from a second COVID-compelled stimulus package than from the original Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act passed in March. …
By BPC Staff | Jan 29, 2021
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A Closer Look: Ahmed Agyeman

Ahmed Agyeman will always remember the positive experience he had when he first visited the Boone Campus of Des Moines Area Community College. It was 1993, and there weren’t many other people on the campus …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Jan 28, 2021
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Iowa community college enrollment drops, tuition swells

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Costs across Iowa’s 15 community colleges are rising, while total enrollment is falling — just like at their public and private higher education peers across the state. A new 2020 Condition of Community …
By BPC Staff | Jan 27, 2021
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Iowa lawmakers advance bill to eliminate tenure

Cedar Rapids Gazette: A bill to end tenure at Iowa’s public universities advanced out of an education subcommittee Tuesday, despite pushback from Board of Regents lobbyists and opposition from economic and industry associations — like those …
By BPC Staff | Jan 27, 2021
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Serve Credit Union partners with Banzai to offer financial literacy education

Serve Credit Union is bringing financial literacy education to more than 800 students and residents in Polk County, through a partnership with Banzai. Students at seven schools and the surrounding community will now have free access …
By BPC Staff | Jan 27, 2021
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School choice, in-person instruction bills advance to Senate floor for debate

Two Republican-led education bills advanced Monday in the Iowa Senate, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported. One bill, Senate Study Bill 1064, would require schools to offer full-time, in-person instruction during the ongoing pandemic, while a second, SSB 1065, would financially support …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2021