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Iowa bill pushes to halt ‘woke agenda’ in state universities, eliminate DEI spending, lawmaker says
A invoice progressing by way of the Iowa Home of Representatives would halt a “woke agenda” within the state’s faculties by banning range, fairness and inclusion spending, the laws’s sponsor stated.
“For too lengthy, the DEI bureaucracies at our establishments of upper schooling have been used to push a woke agenda on the college, workers and college students,” Iowa state Rep. Taylor Collins instructed Fox Information. “Below the guise of range and inclusion, these packages work to indoctrinate college students into their most popular political ideology.”
Home File 616, which handed a Home committee final week, would prohibit the state’s public universities from spending cash on DEI places of work or on workers working in positions centered round race, gender identification or sexual orientation. Programs, analysis, pupil organizations and visitor audio system on these matters, nevertheless, would nonetheless be allowed.
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“This invoice goals to dismantle these DEI packages and guarantee this cash is being spent for the true profit of scholars,” Collins, a Republican, stated.
The laws’s critics have argued that eliminating DEI places of work would take away vital help for all kinds of scholars. Educators wants to consider DEI in an expansive manner “not nearly race, not nearly gender, however about issues like studying disabilities,” College of Iowa President Barbara Wilson stated throughout a Home subcommittee listening to.
DEI places of work are sometimes supposed to assist faculty promote range and inclusion whereas serving to all college students obtain equal outcomes. They usually provide mentoring packages, occasions and different actions and recruit college students and workers of various racial backgrounds so as to add range on campus.
The College of Iowa’s DEI workplace, for instance, enhances “a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive local weather for all” and advances “recruitment and retention of college, college students, and workers,” in keeping with its web site.
Faculty board conferences have gone viral nationwide as extra dad and mom protest choices over curriculum choices. (Getty Photographs)
However opponents of DEI initiatives have stated such packages create race-based favoritism. Gov. Greg Abbott’s chief of workers known as DEI hiring practices an effort “to push insurance policies that expressly favor some demographic teams to the detriment of others.”
The Texas governor directed state faculties to take away DEI components from their hiring practices, main universities to drop range necessities.
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The Iowa invoice additionally would redirect DEI funding to cut back in-state pupil tuition and to scholarships for lower- and middle-income college students. Collins tweeted that the legislation would “return Iowa’s larger schooling establishments’ focus again to tutorial excellence.”
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Different crimson states have additionally taken aggressive stances in opposition to DEI initiatives. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed chopping funding from packages that help DEI and important race principle.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds led 2023 by passing an expansive faculty selection legislation for Okay-12 college students in her state. (AP Picture/Charlie Neibergall)
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The Iowa laws’s introduction additionally adopted the state’s passage of the College students First Act in January, permitting cash to observe Iowa college students to varsities they select to attend. The Hawkeye State has been one of some Republican-led states to move expansive faculty selection legal guidelines for Okay-12 college students lately as a part of a push for parental rights in schooling.
Home File 616 is awaiting a vote within the decrease chamber.
It was an important date around the state for volleyball teams in Iowa, as the latest rankings were released and regional pairings in all five classes were revealed.
The two come into play once regionals reach the championship round, as the higher-ranked team will serve as the host for those games.
All five No. 1 squads remained the same, as Ankeny Centennial (Class 5A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Mount Vernon (3A), Denver (2A) and Ankeny Christian (1A) held serve.
New teams to the Top-15 include Iowa City West in 5A, Ballard in 4A, Wapsie Valley in 2A and Stanton in 1A. The entire 3A poll remained the same while Sidney made one of the biggest climbs, moving to ninth from 12th in 1A.
Regional play for 1A and 2A begins Oct. 21 with 3A, 4A and 5A starting Oct. 22. The state tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-7 in Coralville from the Xtream Arena. Complete regional pairings can be found on Bound.
Class 5A
1. Ankeny Centennial; 2. Pleasant Valley; 3. Ankeny; 4. West Des Moines Dowling; 5. Indianola; 6. Waukee Northwest; 7. Cedar Falls; 8. Cedar Rapids Prairie; 9. Waukee; 10. Iowa City Liberty; 11. West Des Moines Valley; 12. Sioux City East; 13. Iowa City West; 14. Iowa City High; 15. Linn-Mar.
Class 4A
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier; 2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan; 3. North Scott; 4. Clear Creek-Amana; 5. Lewis Central; 6. Pella; 7. Glenwood; 8. Carlisle; 9. Marion; 10. Adel-ADM; 11. Norwalk; 12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 13. MOC-Floyd Valley; 14. Ballard; 15. Grinnell.
Class 3A
1. Mount Vernon; 2. Western Christian; 3. West Delaware; 4. Dubuque Wahlert; 5. Davenport Assumption; 6. Sioux Center; 7. Carroll Kuemper; 8. Mid-Prairie; 9. Cherokee; 10. Wilton; 11. Solon; 12. Anamosa; 13. Roland-Story; 14. Clarinda; 15. Nevada.
Class 2A
1. Denver; 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 3. Dyersville Beckman; 4. Dike-New Hartford; 5. Aplington-Parkersburg; 6. South Hardin; 7. Boyden-Hull; 8. Pella Christian; 9. Iowa City Regina; 10. Hinton; 11. Grundy Center; 12. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 13. Wapsie Valley; 14. West Burlington; 15. Shenandoah.
Class 1A
1. Ankeny Christian; 2. Holy Trinity; 3. Saint Ansgar; 4. Riverside; 5. BCLUW; 6. Janesville; 7. North Tama; 8. Don Bosco; 9. Sidney; 10. River Valley; 11. Akron-Westfield; 12. Stanton; 13. Fremont-Mills; 14. Southwest Valley; 15. Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
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Here are SBLive’s latest Iowa football computer rankings, as of Oct. 7, 2024:
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS
CLASS 5A | CLASS 4A
CLASS 3A | CLASS 2A
CLASS 1A | CLASS A
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JELD-WEN, a manufacturer of windows and doors in Grinnell, has announced it will be laying off 152 workers effective Nov. 7.
The announcement was made on Iowa’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site.
The company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1960 and has 18,000 employees, with operating facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe with 2023 sales of $4.3 billion, according to the company’s website.
JELD-WEN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, JELD-WEN announced the closing of its Hawkins, Wisconsin facility, affecting 338 employees, and in Vista, California, resulting in the loss of 110 jobs.
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