Common core education standards are a hot potato for some conservative activists in Iowa. But they're seen as a good thing by the majority of Iowa adults, a new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.

Iowa adopted the Common Core, making its standards part of the Iowa Core, in 2010 and is now one of 45 states and Washington, D.C., to do so. The Iowa Assessments, ...

However Common Core ultimately plays in Iowa, the issue will likely resonate throughout the 2016 primary season as Republicans across the country have the opportunity to select a nominee.

The "entire nature" of Common Core changed when the Obama administration began to link the education standards to federal money, possible presidential candidate Chris Christie said in Iowa Monday ...

DES MOINES - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had just left the stage at the Des Moines Marriott and walked into a gaggle of reporters. Cruz had been speaking Tuesday to an assembly of home-school ...

Still, it’s not yet clear if Common Core is really a deal breaker for Iowa voters. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad, a longtime supporter of the standards, ...

MARSHALLTOWN — The State Board of Education unanimously approved the adoption of Common Core State Standards today, paving way for the development of common expectations among Iowa’s school ...

The most recent poll of Iowa voters that asked about the issue found that 47 percent of the state’s Republicans like the Common Core. A poll from Bloomberg and the Des Moines Register, also from ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad is removing Iowa from an organization created to develop an assessment system for the Common Core education standards. A Branstad spokesman said ...

URBANDALE, Iowa – Jeb Bush made his first appearance in Iowa as a presidential candidate on Friday night, ... Jeb Bush makes Iowa debut, talks Common Core, immigration, his name.

DES MOINES — A bill to dismantle the Iowa Core stalled in a House subcommittee Wednesday when a Democratic lawmaker didn’t show up for a meeting where one Republican threatened ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Reviled by staunch conservatives, the common education standards designed to improve schools and student competitiveness are being modified by some Republican governors, who ...