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Category Archives: Education
Can Educationism Solve Anything?
Blaming the woes of society on our K-12 education system is a habit I need to break. In the post below the target was a failure to teach children about their responsibilities when signing student loan papers. A high school … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged de-funding education, education, Iowa Legislature, K-12 School Funding
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Meanwhile In Des Moines Citizens Get Screwed
Republicans tell university students: Come live in Iowa’s university cities, but you don’t get to vote there. Who can be surprised that Republicans in the Iowa legislature passed a bill out of committee that would restrict university students from voting … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Education, Iowa legislature 2019, Kim Reynolds
Tagged lobbyists, lobbyists behind closed doors, suppressing student votes, voter suppression
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The Children Are The Future
video 1.5 minutes NPR’s Weekend Edition last Saturday included a story on the seperation of a Guatemalan mother and her 3 year old son. Through an interpreter the NPR host, Scott Simon, conducted the interview. Near the end of the interview … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Children, Climate Action, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Environment, Health Care & Medicare, Medicare, Obamacare, Social Security
Tagged Betsy DeVos, DACA, Jeff Kaufmann
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Public Dollars And Private Education
The Iowa Republican argument for spending $53 million dollars to support private schools and home schooling programs during the 2017-2018 school year is giving parents options. “There’s been a trend to slowly put some dollars towards people who are choosing … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign, Education
Tagged de-funding education, Educaation budget, education, home schooling, private schools
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People Might Expect Education And Health Care For Their Children?
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry or both: (17 minutes) Let me think. One of the purposes of rebelling against Britain was so that we could band together and decide to do things for the common good. Giving … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Education, Food Insecurity, Health Care & Medicare
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Cindy Axne: Coming On Strong
There were some surprising fund raising numbers for Iowa’s congressional candidate released early in the week. Perhaps one of the biggest surprises was Cindy Axne in Iowa’s 3rd district outraising incumbent David Young by over $100,000. Perhaps even as surprising … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Economy, Education, Farming, Health Care & Medicare, Social Security
Tagged Cindy Axne
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Inequality Kim
In the year or so that Kim Reynolds has been in charge of the state government and for the 6+ years that she was Branstad’s top lieutenant one thing seems to stand out as her main focus: widening the inequality … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, economic inequality, Education, Kim Reynolds
Tagged Inequality Kim, Iowa medicaid privatization
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Statement In Response To Santa Fe High School Shooting
For Immediate Release: May 18, 2018 Contact: Matt Sinovic, (515) 423-0133 Progress Iowa Issues Statement In Response To Santa Fe High School Shooting Des Moines, Iowa — Progress Iowa Executive Director Matt Sinovic issued the following statement in reaction to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Children, Education, gun control, gun safety, Progress Iowa
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School Vouchers Rear Their Ugly Head In Iowa
Like many we got an email Wednesday night warning us that Iowa senate Republicans were going to take a run at passing a school voucher law for Iowa. Many thoughts immediately crossed my mind: the first was “not this again.” … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Education, Iowa legislature 2018, Republican Policy
Tagged privatizing schools
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2018 Legislative Agenda
For those who did not get this in their email. It is a week old, but still quite relevant. See previous post to find your legislative forum this weekend. *** Statehouse Update, January 22 *** We’re just starting Week 3 … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Economy, Education, Iowa legislature 2018, Kim Reynolds, Republican Policy
Tagged 2018 legislature proposed bills
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