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Category Archives: Education
A Rant From Twitter:
(5:38) Why Youth Will Not Vote For Republicans: Andrew Wortman lets loose in a rant on why youth in America will no longer vote for Republicans. We are just beginning to see this rebellion taking place. Young voters have long … Continue reading
Changing Iowa And Its Public Schools
Iowa Democrats took a shellacking during the 2010 general election for U.S. Senate. We ran Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin against incumbent Chuck Grassley in a historic campaign. Grassley won 718,215 votes to Conlin’s 371,686. In an email to supporters … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Defunding Iowa public schools, education, education reform, K-12 School Funding, SSB1022
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Good News: Breakthroughs Of The Year
When it seems as if humanity couldn’t be doing more to lead ourselves to a mass extinction, along comes an article that reminds us that human ingenuity is doing some incredible things to keep our species alive and kicking, Atlantic … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged advances in sciences, breakthroughs, cancer, science
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New Labor Report Not Kind To Iowa
The rise and fall of the middle class in the US has almost exactly tracked with the rise and subsequent gutting of labor unions in the US. Although this chart is a few years old, the trend has not changed … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Education, Kim Reynolds, Labor, union busting
Tagged Deidre DeJear, unions
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DeJear: A Governor Who Will Lead on Education
Many Iowans may have been pleasantly surprised Thursday morning to hear stories about Deidre DeJear’s plans to start Iowa on a trek back to the top of the educational heap in America. Education used to be one of Iowa’s bragging … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Education, Kim Reynolds
Tagged Deidre DeJear, privatized schools, public schools
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Issues
As we look at the upcoming election we ate that there are vast differences between the current two major parties on issues. Actually it should be noted that there is only one party in America today that is running on … Continue reading
STATEMENT: Iowa Needs Build Back Better
Progress Iowa <press@progressiowa.org> Contact: Ivy Beckenholdt, press@progressiowa.org STATEMENT: Iowa Needs Build Back Better Des Moines, Iowa — Progress Iowa executive director Matt Sinovic issued the following statement calling on Iowa’s federal delegation to support the Build Back Better framework announced … Continue reading
Posted in Charles Grassley, Education, Joni Ernst
Tagged Affordable Housing, Ashley Hinson, Build Back Better, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Randy Feenstra
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Kim Don’t Care
From poster Grins on democraticunderground.com: (August 12) In 1969 Dave Garroway (Kidz – Google it!) was the host of this enormously popular show on NBC called “The Today Show.“ Fifteen years after the first of the nationwide tests for the … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Covid-19, Education, Kim Reynolds, Republican Policy
Tagged anti mask mandate law, public schools
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What Does It Cost?
Republicans have once again been reborn as deficit hawks. It happens every time a Democrat is elected president. Republicans are hoping with a 50/50 senate they can stop some if not all of President Biden’s investment in America infrastructure … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Covid-19, Education, Health Care & Medicare
Tagged austerity, long haulers, real costs, Viet Nam War
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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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