An Iowa appeals court ruled Wednesday in favor of a former newspaper adviser who was reprimanded by his school, in the first case testing a post-Hazelwood student free expression law.
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After open records dispute, Iowa school boards group says it will release e-mails
Afterdebate over what types of e-mail records can be disclosed under Iowa’sopen-records law, the Iowa Association of School Boards is preparing todisclose documents requested by the DesMoines Register.
Adviser protection policy repealed by Iowa school board
IOWA -- The Johnston Community School Board on Monday repealeda policy designed to protect high school journalism advisers' jobs andstudents' freedom of expression.
Iowa school board may repeal protections for media advisers
A policy designed to help protect high schoolstudents' freedom of speech and journalism advisers' jobs could bein jeopardy as the Johnston Community Board of Education considers repealing it.
Student newspaper containing critical article confiscated at Iowa high school
Administrators confiscated the remaining copies of The Growl at Bettendorf High School last Wednesday because of an article that questioned the consistency of penalties given to student athletes who had violated the school's student conduct policies.
Copies of paper collected in response to survey of students' racial attitudes
An Iowa principal pulled all remaining copies of thestudent newspaper -- with a front-page survey indicating 13 percent ofstudents polled viewed blacks unfavorably and 2 percent viewed whitesunfavorably -- after three separate altercations between black and whitestudents.
Foundations pushed to open
It's a question both sides think they know the answer to and one both sides hope the state's supreme court will take up soon: Are the names of individual donors to public university foundations public under the state open records law?
Open and shut
With frequent tuition hikes and steep taxes comes a desire from thoseconcerned with the use of tax dollars to know how money is allocated at publicuniversities across the country.
Students v. Professionals
Conflicts between a college student newspaper and a professional newspaper in Ames have made their way to court in a suit over access to the student newspaper's records.