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Governor candidates focus on future of public education in Iowa – Iowa Capital Dispatch
Gubernatorial candidates specializing in public faculties is way from new.
However within the Iowa race for governor, each candidates have spent important time on the marketing campaign path discussing their plans for the way forward for training in Iowa amid rising polarization on points from vaccine and masks mandates to guide bans and state funding.
Whereas Gov. Kim Reynolds has not spent a lot time discussing her coverage objectives whereas campaigning for re-election, she has made training a high precedence. In marketing campaign speeches and adverts, she highlights how her administration labored on reopening public faculties which went to distant studying throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa faculties went again to in-person studying sooner than many different states, when she signed an order in July 2020 requiring college students to obtain at the very least half of their education in lecture rooms. She signed laws in 2021 requiring faculty districts to offer a full-time classroom possibility for fogeys who request it.
Dad and mom having a bigger say of their kids’s education is a recurring theme within the governor’s marketing campaign.
“We’re going to place dad and mom again in command of their kids’s training,” Reynolds informed supporters at a rally for U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson in August.
Requires ‘parental management’ in faculties
Reynolds stated it’s “frequent sense” for fogeys to make selections on masking and vaccination in faculties. That concept extends past COVID-19 insurance policies: She has additionally known as for fogeys to have a higher say in how faculties method transgenders college students.
The discussions in Iowa arose after Linn-Mar Neighborhood Faculty District adopted a coverage whereby transgender college students can undertake a “gender assist plan,” the district can require workers and different college students use the person’s most popular title and pronouns, and services will match college students’ gender identification at college.
The coverage states that college students can determine whether or not their dad and mom or guardians take part within the faculty’s “gender assist plan assembly.”
The governor has referenced these public faculty insurance policies as one more reason Iowans ought to assist her voucher proposal. Reynolds stated in Might that households want extra decisions in training, and people decisions shouldn’t be restricted if the dad and mom can’t afford to switch theri kids to a non-public faculty.
“I feel that’s one of many causes I feel dad and mom want an possibility,” Reynolds stated. “In the event that they really feel that their youngster just isn’t being educated in a secure atmosphere, or they really feel that their values aren’t being represented at college, or they really feel that the varsity district just isn’t centered on a top quality training.”
Throughout a latest fundraiser, Reynolds highlighted laws she signed into regulation earlier this 12 months which prohibits transgender women and girls from taking part in on ladies’s groups in most Iowa public faculties and faculties.
“Once we protected ladies’ sports activities for women, they known as it discrimination,” she stated. “The Iowa Democratic Celebration has overpassed hard-working Iowans, and if elected, the entire issues we’ve carried out over the past 4 years will go away.”
Michelle Veach, a Johnston mum or dad, wore a shirt that said “we don’t co-parent with the federal government” to a Reynolds fundraiser earlier this month. She stated one of many main causes she helps the governor is as a result of a number of the materials taught or obtainable in public faculties is inappropriate for youngsters.
As a mum or dad of kids in Johnston public faculties, Veach has spoken at a number of Johnston Faculty Board conferences the place she learn excerpts of the books “The Hate U Give” and “The Completely True Diary of a Half-Time Indian,” books that are in the highschool English class curriculum. Reynolds took their issues significantly when she and different dad and mom visited the Iowa State Capitol to debate the books and different inappropriate content material in faculties, she stated.
“She has listened to folks and labored with us each time potential,” Veach stated. “We wish to be the authority with our youngsters training, our faculties work for us. And we’ve misplaced that in our tradition.”
Democrats name for extra funding
Reynolds has highlighted points like distant studying as a serious drawback in Iowa public faculties. However her opponent, Democrat Deidre DeJear, says the issue is inadequate funding.
On the marketing campaign path, DeJear and different Iowa Democrats have repeatedly pledged to convey Iowa again to its place as a high state for training, an accolade that has slipped lately. In the newest U.S. Information and World Report’s state training rankings, Iowa positioned 18th.
“We all know as Iowans that’s not the place we belong and that’s not what our kids deserve,” DeJear informed a crowd this summer season.
The decline, she stated, is because of state authorities’s failure to match training funding will increase with rising inflation. The state legislature accepted a 2.5% enhance to Iowa’s per-pupil training funding this 12 months, which Democrats say meets neither the tempo of inflation, or makes up for underfunding in earlier years. She informed the Des Moines Register she helps appropriating $300 million from Iowa’s finances surplus in order that it may be used for training and compensate for the funding deficits.
Iowa’s public universities are additionally going through funding shortages. The Iowa Board of Regents raised the annual tuition at Iowa’s three public universities by greater than $300 this 12 months, because the state legislature solely accepted a $5.5 million enhance typically help whereas the faculties requested $15 million after going through a $7 million reduce in 2020. Pupil activists have stated the schooling will increase may stop some Iowans from attending faculty.
The governor mentioned faculty prices on the marketing campaign path as effectively, as she rallied in opposition to President Joe Biden’s pupil mortgage debt forgiveness program. Reynolds and Republican attorneys common in 5 different states filed a lawsuit in September difficult the Division of Schooling’s authority to forgive pupil loans.
Taking up the prices of upper training is a private selection, Reynolds stated, and this system would power taxpayers to tackle that burden.
“By forcing them to pay for different folks’s loans – no matter revenue – President Biden’s mass debt cancellation punishes these People and belittles the trail they selected,” Reynolds stated in a press release in regards to the lawsuit.
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Iowa football: Kickoff time, TV announced for Hawkeyes’ Oct. 19 game at Michigan State
Video: Jay Higgins on Iowa’s defensive performance in loss to Ohio State
Jay Higgins discusses a variety of topics after Iowa’s 35-7 loss to Ohio State.
The Iowa football team’s Oct. 19 game at Michigan State will kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT.
The Big Ten contest will be televised on NBC.
Iowa plays host to Washington on Saturday, Oct. 12. That game is set for 11:10 a.m. CT.
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Dry weather forecasted to stick around in Iowa – KIWA Radio
IARN – While the temperatures have been enjoyable lately, the lack of rainfall has been anything but. After experiencing the driest September on record, drought and fire dangers have increased. Justin Glisan, state climatologist for Iowa, said that the drought monitor has been repopulated with zones of abnormally dry conditions.
Read more at Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network.
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Iowa Tied for Sixth at Fighting Irish Classic
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The University of Iowa men’s golf team finished two rounds of play at the Fighting Irish Classic on Sunday. The Hawkeyes currently sit in sixth place out of 15 teams.
Sophomore Noah Kent and junior Gage Messingham are both leading the Hawkeyes, tied for 8th place overall. Kent shot 1-over (71) in the first round and 1-under (69) in the second round, finishing with a total score of 140. Messingham join Kent as the only other Hawkeye to go under-par today in a round.
Sophomore Max Tjoa is tied for 37th place, shooting rounds of 74 and 72, with a total score of 146. Senior Chance Rinkol posted scores of 71 and 77 in the first and second rounds, respectively, and sits tied for 51st place with a score of 148. Senior Josh Lundmark recorded rounds of 79 and 71, finishing tied for 64th place with a total score of 150.
HAWKEYE SCORECARD
6/15 | Team | +5 | +3 | 148 |
T8 | Gage Messingham | -1 | +1 | 140 |
T8 | Noah Kent | +1 | -1 | 140 |
T37 | Max Tjoa | +4 | +2 | 146 |
T51 | Chance Rinkol | +1 | +7 | 148 |
T64 | Josh Lundmark | +9 | +1 | 150 |
HEAR FROM HEAD COACH TYLER STITH
“Today was a very strong team performance with Noah and Gage leading the way. We showed a lot of grit all day but especially down the stretch. We’re in a great position heading into the final round.”
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