“Besides the cost, the time spent complying with these new regulations will take away from all the other things our understaffed school districts already have to do,” Schoenfish said during the Senate’s vote on Jan. 28. A bill in the house,HB 1105, has a similar mandate for a disp...
(This competition at the chamber level exists despite the fact that anywhere from two to four out of five senate and house districts are reasonably safe for either Democrats or Republicans.) The majority party in a legislative body normally exercises predominant control. In the lawmaking process, ...
“One of the things we’ve heard over and over, particularly in some of the smaller schools, the rural schools, was the challenge to attract teachers,”Shirley said.“We came up with this grow-your-own concept. We now have high school juniors and seniors that the K-12 districts have id...
Those State Representatives are Cecil Dolecheck (R-Mount Ayr), Mary Ann Hanusa (R-Council Bluffs), and Megan Jones (R-Spencer). If you live one of their House districts, I encourage you to educate them on this issue. 3. Education Savings Accounts were shot down. Efforts to introduc...