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Tag Archives: public schools
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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The High Five
We continue to post Friday’s High Five from Progress Iowa with the Iowa legislature in session: We made it to Friday! It’s going to be a cloudy, rainy weekend here in Iowa. But we know that “April showers bring May … Continue reading
Posted in gun safety, iowa legislature 2022, Kim Reynolds, unemployment insurance
Tagged private school vouchers, public education defunding, public schools
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Iowa Has A Choice For Governor
In a rather surprising editorial in the Des Moines Register last week John and Terri Hale wrote about encounters with former Iowans at various places around the country. After some banter, they said, a common theme came up: An example: … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Budget, Economy, iowa legislature 2022, Jobs, Kim Reynolds
Tagged Deidre DeJear, private school vouchers, public schools
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This Week’s The High Five
As noted before, The High Five is a daily email from Progress Iowa that keeps the public abreast of what is going on in the Iowa Legislature. In this time of Iowa’s Republican domination , it is smart to keep … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, voter suppression
Tagged book banning, public schools, school vouchers, special needs students, we will be Kansas
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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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PBS Airing RW Sponsored School Privatization Propaganda
video 15:30 Thanks to an alert from the Thom Hartman radio program (https://www.freespeech.org/ 11AM to 2PM daily) we were able to find an article at Media Matters that detailed the story of these privatization propaganda. So let’s go to Media … Continue reading
Posted in #nevertrump, #trumpresistance
Tagged Betsy DeVos, Diane Ravitch, PBS, propaganda, public schools, school vouchers
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National Report Detailing ALEC’s Assault On Public Schools
Iowa Featured In Report Read the report: http://bit.ly/ALECvKids FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 26, 2013 Contact: Matt Sinovic, (515) 423-0530 Iowa featured in new national report detailing ALEC’s assault on public schools Report exposes the impact right-wing corporate front group ALEC … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Branstad, Education
Tagged Ashford University, Bridgepoint Education, Greg Foristall, Matt Sinovic, public schools
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Privatizing Education: Not Good
I came across this video by David Sirota discussing the how and why of privatizing our education system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2LJzEuodZw The Iowa legislature recently passed some education reform measures that were proposed in the most part by Gov. Branstad. Branstad is … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 Election Campaign, ALEC, Branstad, Education
Tagged privatizing schools, public schools, Students First
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