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Ask Better Questions About Iowa’s Schools: A Business Perspective on School Funding, Opportunity and Iowa’s Future
By Alyx Coble-Frakes
and John Norwood
Guest Columnists
Iowa’s school funding formula gives every student the same base amount—roughly $8,133 per pupil this year. On paper, that means a kindergartner in Washington, Fort Dodge, and...
Hate behind opposition to school desegregation remains today, civil rights icons who faced it say
A civil rights event in Muscatine on the history of school desegregation drew 120 people tonight.
MUSCATINE, Iowa —
Carmen Jungbluth drove from Boone to eastern Iow a today to hear two pioneers of school desegregation from the American So...
Why autistic girls can change the world
Artwork: Wikimedia Commons
The men of the Nerd Reich are building rockets to leave. There is no other planet, and Mars is not getting built in time. The rest of us are staying. It’s time we funded the people who are staying.
By Alyx Coble...
A final note from this year’s Iowa State Fair ...
By Mike Mendenhall
I grew up in a single-story, unremarkable canary yellow house a block south of the Iowa State Fairgrounds. It was a tight fit for my two brothers and my mom, but a great place to grow up.
Summertime brought distan...
A Carroll woman, on street during 9/11 in NYC, saw people jumping from towers, Kmart cut off firearms sales in our Iowa town, gas lines formed
In tens of thousands of interviews in a 36-year career one of the more searing ones I’ve printed came on 9/11, a day which our newspaper, The Carroll Daily Times Herald, devoted the full front page to the terror attack. We were an afternoon...
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Douglas Burns is a fourth-generation Iowa journalist and co-founder of The Western Iowa Journalism Foundation. Burns is the former co-owner of the Carroll (Iowa) Times Herald, which was in his family for 93 years.
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