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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Iowa in March 2020. The first known cases were three individuals who had traveled on a cruise in Egypt before returning home to Johnson County on March 3. Initially, case clusters were focused at meatpacking plants and congregate care facilities.
Just under two-thirds of Iowa's public school districts reported a decrease in certified enrollment from 2022-23 to 2023-24; just over two-thirds of the state's nonpublic schools reported an ...
The Ohio-based Oakmont Education has applied to open the tentatively named Great Oaks High School and Career Center — a dropout recovery school — in Des Moines ahead of the 2024-25 school year.
The money for teacher and school staff pay increases will go only to public schools in Iowa, not private schools. Iowa will spend about $3.8 billion on K-12 education next year
This was a historic event in the history of the United States schooling system because it forced schools to shut-down. At the very peak of school closures, COVID-19 affected 55.1 million students in 124,000 public and private U.S. schools. [ 1] The effects of widespread school shut-downs were felt nationwide, and aggravated several social ...
States, territories, and counties that issued a stay-at-home order in 2020. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
Since Senate File 496's passage, education officials have pushed the Iowa Department of Education to give the state's 325 school districts guidance. Iowa schools may finally get help from the ...
The effect of school closure on COVID-19 cases and mortality has been examined in multiple studies. In a study that looked specifically at school closure in the United States, closure of schools was associated with 1.37 million fewer cases and 40,600 fewer deaths from COVID-19 in a six-week study period. [34]