DES MOINES — The Iowa Department of Education has awarded more than $2 million in grants to eight school districts to create therapeutic classrooms for students with emotional or behavioral needs.
“Therapeutic classrooms across Iowa provide vibrant, safe and healthy learning environments that best support students’ individual cognitive and behavioral needs,” said Iowa Department of Education Director McKenzie Snow. “We commend this year’s awardees and their community partners for their leadership and commitment to modeling best practices in skill building, stress and trauma coping, mental health treatment, and crisis prevention and intervention.”
The school districts receiving the Therapeutic Classroom Incentive Grant for the 2025-26 school year include Bondurant-Farrar, Cedar Rapids, Cherokee, Davenport, Durant, Keokuk, Pella, and Spencer…