Why do House Republicans think a child in Iowa is worth $1,500 less than the national average? Click here and tell them to fully fund our schools!
Iowa school funding is well below the national average, with per pupil spending lagging behind by $1,500. The Senate passed a 6% increase in school funding for the 2015-2016 school year to help fix the funding gap, and they did so before the deadline required by state law. Unfortunately, multiple press reports indicate that House Republicans have no interest in even considering this increase.
We need to fully fund our schools and provide every opportunity for Iowa students. Send House Leadership a message today. Tell them to fund our schools!
The Cedar Rapids Gazette put it best this morning:
“The Republicans who run your Iowa House say they won’t approve public school funding for the 2015-2016 school year, even though the law requires it.”
Every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, and our schools deserve to know in advance what resources they will have to provide those opportunities. That’s why state law requires school funding to be set two years in advance.
House Republicans have given every indication that they will ignore state law and make sure Iowa schoolchildren are valued far below the national average. At a time when more and more children in Iowa are living in poverty and falling behind, their failed leadership is a disgrace, and does a disservice to our state’s future.
You and I both know that the best way for Iowa’s children to get ahead is to give them every opportunity in the classroom.
Send House Republicans a message today. Tell them that no Iowa child is worth less than the national average.
Thanks for all you do,
Matt Sinovic
Progress Iowa
Blog For Iowa 
As education already gets 51% of the property taxes I pay, to a system I have no children in, please be very specific as to where this money would go to before telling me I am not paying enough. Many things effect how liars figure, or is that figures lie, but if you got the money I’ll get you a study to give you the requested results. Has it ever dawned on you that perhaps it is how the money is being spent that is the problem with education and not how much is spent.
Business 101, your largest expenditure is payroll, are we getting our monies worth? And if we increase our funding, how much will go to salary increases?
When all else fails cry “The Children”, what rhetoric.
No I am not a Republican, I am a libertarian, but you are afraid of us also, hey.
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Can’t say I am really afraid of you or any other libertarians.
There are many things I pay taxes for which I find much more wasteful than education. Among others we have an incredibly bloated national defense system, and a system that subsidizes oil and the likes of Walmart.
And no I am not crying children. But I will say that if we don’t educate the young we will have a real failed society when they get older. Instead I would like to see them get the basics while young to be prepared to go into careers when they become adults. I no longer have kids in school, but I am more than happy to share the cost of what should be one of a society’s basic duties: educate those coming behind you so society can continue.
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Our “National Defense System” is not bloated, but the industrial complex that feeds on it surely is. “Ike” warned us about that many years ago. If you were to know the hundreds of soldiers I have known who have gone to college or trade schools on Uncle Sam’s tab (my 2 sons included), you may consider our DOD as part of the education system. Time in uniform also teaches you things you can never learn on campus.
I notice you mention oil subsides but not farm subsides though we are in Iowa where “Corn is King”. How much oil does a combine or tractor the size of my house use to harvest a crop we will never eat?
We have so much corn growing in the mid-west it affects the weather. The price of corn and beans goes up and acres come out of CRP and go back into production. Yet farmers, ney, “Industrial Agriculturalists” vote Democrat, and the party seems to nurture this relationship. Am I missing something?
Wal-Mart is a pox on the world, and a great many of their employees receive benefits from the government, as Wal-Mart will keep their income just low enough to keep them entitled and teach them how to file, and what they can qualify for.
I don’t see a link here for “Iowans against Wal-Mart”.
I have just started to work through this site, and may agree on many issues, just not where you place responsibility and how you think things should be changed.
It is not society’s responsibility to educate my children, it is mine. As for failed education, ask a number of students about the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution w/amendments, The Federalist Papers, The Anti-Federalists Papers, or (a personnel recommendation to you) select writings of Lysander Spooner and what do you think they will know?
No need to answer, I already know, squat!
Now that you think I am some Tea Party member with a poster of Sarah on my wall, not so.
I fully support LGBT rights while being a member of the NRA.
I am Pro-Choice and Pro Prayer in school, and Nativity Scene on public property.
I support the MPP and the death penalty.
So I’ll canvas what you folks have to say, while getting e-mails from the Heritage Foundation and more than likely come to the conclusion that you are different roads to the same destination.
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Thank you for a well thought out response. As you note, we may agree on many subjects. Therefore we should approach others not in an attack mode, but in a manner to work together. Right now nearly nothing is being done in this country and there are problems that need some solution.
I do believe it is society’s job to see that some level of education is attained by most of our children. As for the nativity scene, it should be welcome along with all others
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