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Category Archives: Education
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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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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