image From former Governor Terry Branstad’s campaign:

(URBANDALE) – Governor Branstad 2010 campaign manager Jeff Boeyink offered the following response to Gov. Culver’s election-year address today to school administrators in Des Moines:

“Gov. Branstad’s goal is to again make Iowa’s education system the best in the country.  In the coming weeks, we will be unveiling Terry Branstad’s education agenda and how his administration will achieve this ambitious goal.

“Governor Culver has failed to keep his many educational promises to teachers, students, and parents, and today again offered more of the same.  He has failed teachers with his slashing of school budgets and the significant teacher layoffs that has caused across the state.  He has failed school boards with a Race to the Top effort that didn’t bring a single dollar of additional resources for our schools but still shackles local districts with more regulations.  And, Governor Culver has failed parents by signing legislation that means parents will be receiving less information about the performance of their children and their children’s school.

“Gov. Culver has broken too many of his educational promises to be trusted to get it right the next four years.”


You May Also Like

Mike Fair: We Sold Our Education Birthright

State Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville) in an op/ed for the Greenville News…

American Principles in Action: Obama Dept. of Education Quietly Stripping Students’ Privacy Rights

Proposed Rule Changes Would Share Personal Info with Federal, State Agencies Washington,…

Iowa Races to the Early Childhood Trough

The State of Iowa’s application for a Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant opens up Iowa to Federal involvement in early childhood education.

Newt Gingrich’s Return to Iowa

On Saturday at the Iowa Tea Party Bus Tour stop in Indianola,…