Iowa’s AEAs Endures Challenges, Staff Cuts

Iowa’s Area Education Agencies are still making adjustments in how they operate, based on changes mandated during the last legislative session. 

Stan Rheingans is interim administrator for the Central Rivers AEA, based in Cedar Falls, and he’s also administrator of the Keystone AEA, based in Elkader. Under the old plan, Rheingans says schools that graduate 25 students a year would have access to the same resources as schools with 800 graduates per year.

He says the AEAs are having to do more with fewer employees, saying their staffs have been cut by 20-percent.

There are nine AEAs in Iowa, which provide special education services, teacher training and other services to Iowa school districts.

story and image courtesy of Radio Iowa