Report on the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2013

Report on the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2013

Report on Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2013

Report on Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Education for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Education for the year ended June 30, 2013

Iowa Department of Education Performance Report, FY2013

Agency Performance Report

Dedicated to Better and Safer Highways, Iowa State Highway Commission, July 1973

The planning, construction and maintenance of its highways is the state's second highest business, next only to education. Of the nearly 113,090 miles of roads and streets in Iowa, the 10,271 miles in the Interstate and primary system are the direct responsibility of the Highway Commission.From its central headquarters in Ames, the Commission coordinates its statewide activities through facilities located in each of the 99 counties. These include six district offices, 47 resident offices and 165 maintenance garages.

Issue review : Area Education Agency review update.

Information presented provides an update of the Area Education Agency issue review published in 1997, including history, organization, funding formula, revenues, expenditures, and authority.

Issue review : state funding for libraries.

The state appropriates funds to support library services to Iowans through the State Library, the Library Service Areas, and state aid to local libraries known as Enrich Iowa. As a result of legislation enacted in 2010, the Iowa Library Association, or ILA, convened a committee to make recommendations regarding reorganization of state-funded library operations and services. The committee's recommendations have been approved by the ILA and endorsed by the State Commission of Libraries. The recommendations described involve the reorganization of the State Library and Library Service Areas.

Issue review : state funding for preschool.

The state provides funds for preschool programming through several annual and standing appropriations. The funds are received and managed by a variety of local and state entities, including local school districts, Area Education Agencies, or AEAs, the Child Development Coordinating Council, the Department of Education, and local early childhood Iowa boards. This document also provides limited information on the federally funded Head Start Program, the largest source of preschool funding in Iowa.

Audit report of Debt Service and Coverage for Iowa State University of Science and Technology as of June 30, 2014

Audit report of Debt Service and Coverage for Iowa State University of Science and Technology as of June 30, 2014

Iowa Department of Education Strategic Plan, 2012

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Department of Education, goals and mission.

Department of Education Iowa Public Television Performance Plan, FY 2014

Agency Performance Plan, Iowa Public Television

Iowa Department of Education Performance Plan, FY2015

Agency Performance Plan, Iowa Department of Education

Department of Education Iowa Public Television Performance Plan, FY 2015

Agency Performance Plan, Iowa Public Television

Issue review : Secure an Advanced Vision for Education, or (SAVE) funding, fiscal year 2011 report and analysis.

During the 2010 legislative session, House File 2531, Fiscal Year 2011 Standing Appropriations Act, was enacted and required school districts to report the specific use of sales tax dollars for school infrastructure purposes to the Department of Education. The Department published SAVE SILO annual report reflecting data for fiscal year 2011. This issue review provides a summary and additional analysis of that information.

Occupational research : selected bibliography of Iowa research in vocational-technical education and related areas -- 1960-1967

The Iowa RCU has developed this selected bibliography of Iowa research in Vocational-Technical Education and related areas. Contract research as well as abstracts of masters theses and doctoral dissertations are included. For the most part, these abstracts have been gleaned from research at the three state universities and Drake University.