The Iowa Department of Education will hand out 100,000 book packs — 1 million books in all — to first grade students this ...

I want to applaud every single one of you because every single grade level has increased their reading participation. We have ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Education have announced an investment of over $ 3.5 million to provide first ...

Almost 38,000 Iowa first grade students are slated ... according to the release. The book packs are designed to become more challenging as students' reading skills improve, the release says.