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Legislation calls for student first scholarships to be available for up to 10,000 Iowa students, meaning 10,000 lives could be changed for the better if school choice becomes law.

This is a little soft-shoe pissed off blathering from me, so apologies up front. No big news on the Ukraine Invasion front, or the Gates Owning All the Farms front, or the Climate-Wall Street-Chronic Illness front. Nothing related to the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank) front. Just plain old burnt toast and spilled milk from a radical who

  Jose Luis Moncada, of Desert Hot Springs, was arrested last year and charged with eight counts of committing lewd acts with three children under 14 years old. The crimes occurred between 2004 and 2010, according to authorities. Moncada has pleaded not guilty to all counts and is currently out of custody on electronic monitoring. He has no other criminal history in Riverside County. Separately, two women who say they were victimized by Moncada filed a civil suit last week against both the Palm Springs and Coachella Valley Unified school districts. The plaintiffs, identified in court doc...

tbabcock@timesrepublican.com Passing of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Senate File 159 in the Iowa Senate, also known as the “school choice” bill, has created a contentious debate around the allocation of taxpayer funds to public and private schools. “When you divert funds from schools, especially now, when students’ lives have been disrupted in every aspect, it will mean that students in public schools will miss out on important opportunities they would have been provided,” Marshalltown Education Association President Anita Ringgenberg said. Senate File 159 being an “education omnibus ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Friday requiring all schools to provide a 100-percent in-person learning option but it isn’t the only piece of legisl