The state’s new “Math Counts Act” requires Iowa schools to start screening students’ math skills three times each year. Schools have been testing students’ literacy skills three times a year for several years. “Just kind of piggybacking on that to really try to enhance some of the math scores in this state,” said Katie Black, […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






