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...
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