Iowa has made significant strides in providing access to computer science education, recently ranking eighth in the country. However, this doesn’t mean every student has the chance to learn computer science. While the state has improved its standing, only five percent of high school students ...
It is the mission of the Marshalltown Community School District to provide all students with a high-quality education that prepares them for success later in life. To do this, we must maintain a learning environment where our nearly 5,300 students and 900 staff members can thrive. One of the ...
Our great and glorious leaders in the Iowa House of Representatives have advanced a bill allowing the arming of school district employees. House Study Bill 675 passed a legislative deadline last week and may get consideration from the full House. (The new number is House File 2586.) To be ...
In our free-market economy, Americans should have the freedom to purchase the car or truck of their choice without the federal government putting its thumb on the scale to advance a specific policy preference and distort the market. However, President Biden doesn’t see it that way. He prefers ...
After weeks of delays, the House finally got to work on a bill to decide how much money to invest in our kids in public schools next year. Led by our experts on the House Education Committee who have been listening to educators and parents since session opened, we proposed a new investment of ...
It is hard to believe I have worked at the Marshalltown YMCA-YWCA for 21 years. It is just as hard to believe that our “new” facility, the Horne-Henry Center, has been open for 20 years. I can still remember my first office in the basement of the Y Cultural Center. No windows or natural ...