Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds signs historic school
choice bill: 'We will fund students not systems
Fox News,
by
Joshua Q. Nelson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
1/25/2023 3:16:04 AM
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an unprecedented school choice bill called the Students First Act on Tuesday, allowing any Iowa student to use public money to pay for private school tuition or other expenses. "For the first time, we will fund students not systems!" Reynolds said on Twitter.
"Parents, not the government, can now choose the education setting best suited to their child regardless of their income or zip code. Iowa has affirmed that educational freedom belongs to all!" After the Students First Act was passed, Iowa is now the third state to pass a school choice measure that expands to every student in the state.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 1/25/2023 4:33:34 AM (No. 1386658)
This is really wonderful news. School Choice, with the money following the student, is the only way to break the strangle-hold the radical communist teacher's union has over the public schools. It is foundational to saving America.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 1/25/2023 5:02:48 AM (No. 1386663)
Randi Weingarten will give a speech on this, right after her speech on abortion being a right, which is right after the speech that teachers should raise your kids, not you.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/25/2023 7:39:17 AM (No. 1386748)
This will get the teacher unions stirred up. I hope the governor is starting a nation-wide movement.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/25/2023 7:42:30 AM (No. 1386752)
Where is Greg Abbott, who can't even copy the good things being done here by Governor Reynolds, and by Governor DeSantis? Meanwhile, Gov Abbott has not stopped anyone from crossing into Texas.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TJ54 1/25/2023 8:27:37 AM (No. 1386791)
Union Goons hardest hit
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/25/2023 8:51:08 AM (No. 1386813)
Well, that’s a start. But, if you want real reform in education, then abandon university schools of education as the sole source for teacher certification. This is where all of the evil that is taught in four year programs is amplified, with students given the duty to institute “social justice” as their primary motivation. Libs of TikTok exposes this psychosis ever hour of every day. However, my suggestion continues to be to do whatever it takes to get your children out of public school. There are damn few good ones left, and technology offers new opportunities to grow your child into an education young man or young woman.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 1/25/2023 9:26:48 AM (No. 1386840)
This is good news - HOWEVER, there are not that many private schools in Iowa. Most are either Catholic or Lutheran and they are in the bigger cities. This doesn't help the majority of the state that is rural.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/25/2023 9:33:25 AM (No. 1386847)
What took you so long ?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pmcclure 1/25/2023 10:28:20 AM (No. 1386908)
Public schools at all levels have abandoned education for indoctrination.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/25/2023 11:22:18 AM (No. 1386938)
The teachers unions will soon start crying about the death of public education and taking money away from the classrooms and public schools. They will yell from the mountaintops about needing more funding for failing schools where failing teachers teach failing students to be failures in life to be dependent on the government. They will totally ignore the once failing students who will now be thriving in supportive education environments where they will excel for less money. They will probably also be safer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 1/25/2023 11:48:37 AM (No. 1386973)
My grandson is in a private Christian school, and it's a shame that his parents don't get a voucher to help pay for it from the State of Oregon. Not fair! Also, I have always wondered why home-schooled children only spend a fraction of the time in "school" and generally get much better grades and outcomes. We definitely need school vouchers nation-wide.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SycamoreHills 1/25/2023 12:29:13 PM (No. 1387000)
We lived in the city of St. Louis and when our children reached school age we had to decide whether to stay in the house we loved or move to the suburbs which had much better educational opportunities. Luckily there was a very good Catholic school in the neighborhood and, from there, both our children were accepted into a very selective Catholic high school. It wasn't cheap. We never took expensive vacations nor bought new cars but the sacrifice was worth it when they both received very generous scholarships to a highly regarded state liberal arts university here in Missouri. It cost us less to send our children, both of whom now have doctoral degrees, to college than it cost us to send them through elementary and high school. I don't think that they would have had those achievements had they gone through the St. Louis public schools. Of course, along with tuition we paid our city and state taxes which went to support the St. Louis school system. I hope Iowa represents the beginning of a new wave in education.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/25/2023 1:28:16 PM (No. 1387048)
This is one "fundamental change" that could be accomplished by an easy, smooth transition. Competent school teachers from every public school could form a private organization, open a school to replace the public indoctrination center, rid themselves of the administration and the teachers' union and probably make a lot more money while ridding themselves of the destructive monkey on their backs. Win-win for everybody except the communist government.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
kono 1/25/2023 8:37:10 PM (No. 1387333)
Parents should be free to choose their schools. We might do well to bear in mind how the practice of boycotting certain manufacturers for things they make (or certain stores for things they sell) has become a fairly common practice on both sides of the ideological divide. So in a way, the Governor's program is perceived as funding the systems on whom the monies get spent.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 1/26/2023 2:58:29 AM (No. 1387452)
This is FANTASTIC! Really wonderful.
ALL states should do this. This will really open up the marketplace to have GOOD schools, now that parents can choose any school, based on results.
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Well, the left is not going to like this. Imagine putting students ahead of both teachers and leftist ideology
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/26/2023 8:57:19 AM (No. 1387589)
Great news indeed. 3 states in the bag with 47 to go. The union choke-hold may yet be broken. But sadly, it will be while yet before my home state, the Peoples Republic of Colorado follow through.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/26/2023 10:29:35 AM (No. 1387662)
AND when all the union thugs are out of jobs teaching/running schools we'll be fine.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/26/2023 10:55:58 AM (No. 1387705)
This is only the first battle, not the war. Randi Weingarten and the NEA control much of the union dues. and Democrat donations.
The NEA is a major political player, with its associated political action committees contributing nearly $143.5 million to federal candidates and committees—97% of which supported Democrats and liberals—from 1990 through February 2019. The NEA is also deeply entangled in state and local politics and is a major contributor to left-of-center nonprofit organizations
https://www.influencewatch.org/labor-union/national-education-association-nea/
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/26/2023 11:47:29 AM (No. 1387773)
Oh this is great....I spent thousands of dollars in Chicago when the revrump Jackson decided to bus MY kids away from their neighborhood school and into a crime infested neighborhood...my son was five years old...can you imagine?....an hour bus ride in the morning and an hour bus ride in the afternoon to get votes for the revrump and the rainbow coalition....Well...WE emptied the schools and saved the Catholic school system...and that young man is a doctor today thanks to catholic priests and tough nuns....
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
SycamoreHills 1/26/2023 12:12:23 PM (No. 1387787)
I neglected to point out that the Catholic school that gave our daughters such a good education accepted a large number of non-Catholics. Today the school directory lists families from over twenty different zip codes in the St. Louis area. Unfortunately, without a voucher system excellent educational opportunities like we had aren't available to families that can't afford it thanks to Randi Weingarten and her ilk. It is a safe bet that she and her cohorts don't send their children to inner city schools.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DeweyCA 1/26/2023 1:36:40 PM (No. 1387853)
#21. Over 20 years ago, a survey showed that over 40% of Chicago public school teachers sent their own children to private schools. The Chicago public school teachers were in position to KNOW that their school systems are crap.
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