Essential workers and Iowans with disabilities will start getting the COVID-19 vaccines in early March. That’s according to Governor Kim Reynolds who says she expects 70 percent of Iowans currently eligible for a vaccine to have received at least one dose by mid-March. At the statehouse, lawmakers on an Iowa House panel have advanced an education bill that includes some proposals favored by the governor but leaves out others. Plus, IPR’s Katie Peikes reports on questions about how carbon markets fit into the larger picture of reducing greenhouse gases and we finish listening back to IPR’s series on systemic racism which first aired in December 2020.