The Iowa Department of Education sets the standards for all public institutions of education in
Iowa
Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...
and accredits private as well as
public schools. It is headquartered in
Des Moines.
Organization
As of 2020, the Iowa Department of Education consisted of 8 bureaus and works with the oversight of the 11 member Board of Education.
History
The Board of Education was founded in 1857.
In the 2019-2020 school year 93 percent of public school children in Iowa attended school in their neighborhood school district.
Prior to 2021, there were only 2
charter schools in Iowa. After Governor
Kim Reynolds signed two bills about establishing and operating new
charter schools in May 2021, three more were founded in
Union, Iowa,
Hamburg, Iowa and
Des Moines. In 2023, the department received 8 more charter school applications for the 2024-25 School Year, one in
Oakmont, three in
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in u ...
, and four in Des Moines.
Since 2019, the Department of Education has used the Iowa Statewide Assessment for Student Progress (ISASP) since 2023, it has administered the
National Assessment of Educational Progress and since. In 2019, the board allocated $2.7 million for school districts and $300,000 for accredited nonpublic schools.
Department Directors
*Chad Aldis, until 2023
*McKenzie Snow, 2023–present
Bibliography
Notes
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External links
Iowa Department of Education*
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Department of Education, Iowa
State departments of education of the United States
Education, Department of, Iowa
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