Molly Duffy

Why is girls’ wrestling booming in Iowa, and when will it be recognized as a high school sport? IOWA CITY …

MT. PLEASANT – Fifth-grade teacher Samantha Freeman is all about building personal relationships with students – even if it means …

IOWA CITY – Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of hundreds Wednesday at the University of …

Peggy Whitson has always been a team player, both as a teenager on the Mt. Ayr High School's basketball court and as a record-breaking astronaut aboard the International Space Station.She wasn't the most talented athlete on the high school team, recalled James Saville, her assistant coach. But she made up for it with an incredible work ethic.If the team needed someone ? a guard, for example, though Whitson ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Her students attend a ?little, itty-bitty, tiny school,? but coach Robin Crow says speech competitors from Cedar Valley Christian School in Cedar Rapids are earning big honors this year.Fresh off a group performance Feb. 17 at an All-State event for the Iowa High School Speech Association ? a ?huge honor,? Crow said ? the small, private school of about 250 K-12 students hosted its first-ever ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? While a number of Cedar Rapids schools have improved, the latest round of Iowa School Report Card ratings released Wednesday keeps most of the district's schools in the lower half of its six-tier system.The school accountability system, run by the Iowa Department of Education, relies primarily on statewide assessment test scores and classifies public schools ? from the highest to lowest categories ...

Breanne French had been caring for the baby boy, whose bloodcurdling screaming fits finally had started to dissipate, for nine months when the Iowa Department of Human Services gave him back to his birth mother.The 11-month-old child had spent most of his life in one of two places: with Breanne, a licensed foster parent, and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar ...

DES MOINES ? A group tasked with identifying how Iowa could expand computer science opportunities in its public schools released its recommendations Wednesday.The recommendations were written with ?a vision that computer science will eventually become a high school requirement for all students,? according to the group's report, and includes encouraging all school districts to allow some computer science courses ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? A ?No Children? sign is on the front door of the tattoo shop, but inside, artists are on their way to raising thousands of dollars for young Cedar Rapids Community School District students.Through November, Mystic Tat2 is donating $27 ? the cost of about 10 school lunches ? to the school district for each small, food-related tattoo done at the shop.Since the start of September, the drive raised ...