Deadlock in Des Moines
If you've been paying attention to the news lately, the Iowa House is in a complete deadlock. What's surprising here is that the House Republicans are fighting the education budget:
The
biggest fireworks came during debate over the education budget. House
Democrats called on Republicans to accept the Senate spending plan or
at least spend more for the state's three universities, which could see
midyear tuition increases.
“It's
time for the speaker to put some of the bravado aside,” said House
Minority Leader Pat Murphy, a Democrat from Dubuque, after emerging
from one of the numerous party caucuses.
It seems odd that the House Republicans are going out on a limb to fight against the education budget.
Iowa has
been known for having good schools – living in an environment where
infrastructures are crumbling and our universities have been slashing
programs, such as the loss of Iowa State's College of Education, is not
meeting the priorities of this state or its citizens.
Every single expert in the nation is now pointing at the inadequacy of
America's high schools to prepare this nation to face an ever rising
need to be scientifically, technically, and numerically literate.
Iowa already has several disadvantages without slowly destroying our
education system. I, for one, don't want Iowa to turn into the
Alabama or Mississippi of the 21st Century.
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