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U.S. News & World Report has ranked Iowa number 12 out of all 50 states in the country. The 2026 Overall Best State Rankings evaluated all 50 states across eight categories, including education, ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa education falls into bottom half of states, new report finds For the first time, Iowa's education ranking has tumbled into ...
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IOWA CITY — No state in the nation has seen a bigger drop in public higher education state appropriations per full-time student in the last quarter century than Iowa — with its 46 percent slide from ...
News United States » Iowa » Education: Iowa education falls into bottom half of states, new report finds
For the first time, Iowa's education ranking has tumbled into the bottom half of states, falling to 27th nationally, according to the 2026 Kids Count Data Book. The study from the Anne E. Casey ...
News United States » Iowa » Education: Iowa education falls into bottom half of states, new report finds
However, the state lags in education. Iowa's education ranking of 27th is the first time since the creation of the Kids Count report in 1990 that Iowa has fallen into the lower 25 states. Students ...