Nick Covington: "If you want to know who these voucher programs are made for, look no further than the New York and Florida hedge fund billionaires who plan to use our tax dollars to remake the Iowa education system in their image & for their profit."
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2023/01/11/whose-priorities-for-iowa/
Nick Covington is an Iowa parent who taught high school social studies for ten years. He is also the co-founder of the Human Restoration Project, an Iowa educational non-profit promoting systems-based thinking and grassroots organizing in education. This essay first...
New post: Emboldened by a larger Iowa House majority, Governor Kim Reynolds made her school voucher proposal much more ambitious and more expensive.
I reviewed the most significant changes compared to the plan she couldn't get through #ialegis last year:
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2023/01/12/five-ways-kim-reynolds-changed-her-school-voucher-plan/
As expected, Governor Kim Reynolds devoted a significant share of her Condition of the State speech on January 10 to her plan to divert more public funds to private K-12 schools across Iowa. Although the central purpose of the plan...
The latest federal budget bill will fund dozens of infrastructure projects and services across Iowa—but none in the counties Randy Feenstra represents.
A look at what his ideological position costs the fourth Congressional district: #Iowa #IA04
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2022/12/26/feenstras-stance-on-earmarks-costs-his-district-millions/
The omnibus budget bill Congress just approved will fund dozens of infrastructure projects or services in Iowa during the current fiscal year, which ends on September 30, 2023. But none of those earmarks (totaling tens of millions of dollars) will...
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No surprise that Senators Grassley and Ernst voted against the omnibus budget bill that will fund the federal government through September 30 of next year.
I wanted to look more closely at how they voted on some of the amendments the Senate considered before the vote on final passage:
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2022/12/22/grassley-ernst-oppose-big-spending-bill-but-back-some-provisions/
The U.S. Senate completed its work for the year on December 22, when senators approved an omnibus bill to fund the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year on September 30, 2023. The bill allocates $1.7 trillion...
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