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Retired educator: Now, there’s a mean wind blowing under Iowa’s Capitol dome, and it’s completely wiping out “Iowa nice.”

Bruce Lear: What if, instead of shunning masks early in the pandemic, Donald Trump had marketed them like his resorts and his casinos? 

Bruce Lear: What once were fringe ideas have become mainstream in the GOP echo chamber.

Retired educator: The Iowa Legislature needs to step up and provide Supplemental State Aid of at least 5%.

Bruce Lear: In order to protect democracy, it’s important to study the words of the past, the present, and the future.

Bruce Lear: The obscenity is not books Jake Chapman doesn’t like, but what Republican legislators have done to Iowa schools.

Bruce Lear: Pretend patriots pushing the 1776 Pledge are afraid to let students understand all of American history.

Retired educator: Teachers don’t want to co-parent your child, but they do want parents to partner with them to help their children learn and grow.

Bruce Lear: Democratic candidates need to sharpen their messages around education, or they’ll face a red tide that will drown them.

Retired educator: The folks advocating for mandatory masks in school need to meet the passion of the other sides political ideology.