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Yves here. Funny how Betty DeVos was, according to the liberal and leftist press, one of the worst in the pantheon of Trump Administration monsters, yet remarkably little has been said on how much of her education-as-rentierism is merrily moving forward across the US. By Jeff Bryant, a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our Schools and a communications consultant, freelance writer, advocacy journalist, and director of the Education Opportunity Network, a strategy and messaging center fo...

jfisher@timesrepublican.com T-R FILE PHOTO A “No Smoking” sign directs Heinz Hall residents where smoking is allowed on the facility’s west side at the Iowa Veterans Home. A bill calling for smoking to be allowed by all residents at the Iowa Veterans Home is being recommended by the Veterans Affairs subcommittee in the Iowa Senate. Senate Study Bill 1080 passed the subcommittee with a 2-1 vote. Sen. Jeff Edler, R-State Center, serves on the subcommittee. The bill states “The commissio...

One-time expenses like equipment or vehicle purchases in the prior year. Lower personnel costs if entry-level law enforcement officers replace those with more experience. Merging or consolidating jail or dispatch services or merging law enforcement agencies. Budget reductions due to reduced population in the area served. The bill would not deny any state funds designated for law enforcement purposes. The state would deny funding for cities and counties that reduce police budgets in the fiscal...

A bill that addresses Gov. Kim Reynolds $450 million plan to expand high-speed internet statewide by 2025 was heard by the Senate Commerce Subcommittee this we

Feb 3, 2021 The death penalty is once again on the Iowa Legislatures agenda - this time in a very limited form. Senate Study Bill 1004 has already advanced out of sub committee and is waiting to be introduced before the full Senate Judiciary committee. If it makes it out of there, it will be up to leadership if and when it gets debated before the full Iowa Senate. “It’s a very limited bill. It only applies where someone has kidnapped, raped and murdered a minor,” the sub committee chairma...

Last week the Iowa Senate passed Governor Kim Reynolds’ legislation that creates a student voucher program for those enrolled in underperforming schools and creates a charter school system that would be publicly funded. Senate Study Bill 1065 would create a “student first scholarship program” available to students in schools rated as needing comprehensive support and improvement under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. This bill would also allow groups to apply to form charter school...

The Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown would be required to allow all its residents to smoke, despite risking federal funding, according to a state Senate study bill passed this week by a legislative subcommittee. The Veterans Home, one of the largest such facilities in the country, provides care and housing for up to 550 veterans. There are 412 residents there now. Home administrators allowed 41 residents who started living there before the ban to continue to smoke in a designated area with s...

Des Moines Register Over the strenuous objections of Democrats and teachers groups, Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate are moving quickly to approve a pair of proposals they argue will give parents more choice in their childrens education. The proposals, one that would require school districts to offer a fully in-person learning option during the pandemic and another that would give students state money to spend on private education, sped through the subcommittee and committee pr...

School choice, in-person instruction bills advance to Senate floor for debate Tuesday, January 26, 2021 11:10 AM Two Republican-led education bills advanced Monday in the Iowa Senate, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported. One bill, Senate Study Bill 1064, would require schools to offer full-time, in-person instruction during the ongoing pandemic, while a second, SSB 1065, would financially support more options for students to attend private schools. Gov. Kim Rey...

DES MOINES - Republican lawmakers who control the Iowa Legislature pressed ahead Monday with plans to expand school choice for parents with public funds for private and charter schools and with requiring K-12 schools to offer an in-person instruction option as the state struggles through the pandemic.