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Monday, Jun 28 2021
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Yes, it’s been a horrible, terrible, very bad year for public schools in Iowa. As usual, the Republican-controlled Iowa legislature underfunded schools. Also typical for them, they tried again to pass a voucher law to give public money to private schools.
When that didn’t work, they passed “vouchers lite”: a mostly unregulated, for-profit charter school law, that will no doubt siphon money from the already underfunded public system, and that could leave rural Iowa as an education desert.
What wasn’t quite as typical was the legislature’s meddling in the classroom.
During this session, Governor Kim Reynolds and the majority party decreed through their actions that local control is dead. In its place, they passed poorly written, one-size-fits-all legislation that, if enforced, will cheat Iowa children out of an education rooted in fact. Specifically, Iowa Republicans appear determined to water down and whitewash curric
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“No Section 8 accepted.”
It’s a familiar refrain to low-income renters searching for a place to live. The four-word phrase signals one of the last (mostly) legal forms of overt housing discrimination. Commonly referred to as “source-of-income discrimination,” landlords across the nation often refuse to accept tenants who attempt to pay rent with help from the federal government’s Section 8 housing voucher program.
Now, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) has put the nearly 40,000 Section 8 recipients in her state in jeopardy of getting those notices by signing a new law that ensures cities and counties can no longer protect their residents from this subtle form of discrimination.
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