GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN (April 24, 2025) — A recent American Enterprise Institute report does a good job of identifying and describing long-term trends in student performance using national and international assessment data.

However, a review finds that the report then falls short in its attempts to analyze and understand the factors driving these trends.

FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA (April 22, 2025) — US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced $340.6 million in US Department of Agriculture disaster assistance to deliver relief to farmers, ranchers, and rural communities impacted by natural disasters that have caused devastation across the country.

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 22, 2025) — In a report issued Monday, April 21, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has concluded that the March 6, 2025, fatal shooting of David Robert Plagmann by a Shelby County deputy was legally justified.

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 21, 2025) — Governor Kim Reynolds ordered all flags in Iowa to be lowered to half-staff immediately until sunset on the day of interment for His Holiness Pope Francis who died on April 21, 2025 at Vatican City. He was 88-years-old.

Gov Reynolds’ order is issued in conjunction with President Trump’s proclamation to lower the United States flag for the same amount of time.