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Collective Bargaining Reform Made Local Control in School Spending Possible

Jason Schultz: Changes to our collective bargaining law have allowed school administrators to spend locally collected dollars where they are needed.

Iowa House and Senate in Conflict Over School Start Date

A non-partisan conflict between the Iowa House of Representatives and Iowa Senate over the future of the school start date has made some strange allies.

Iowa Legislators Push to End School Start Date Limitation

A bipartisan sponsored bill, House File 13, was introduced in the Iowa House that would eliminate the limitation on when schools could start school.

Let Local School Boards Decide School Start Dates

The Iowa Department of Education says it will stop granting automatic waivers to school districts seeking to start classes earlier in the summer.

Kansas Legislators Split on Local Control

(Watchdog.org) Topeka, KS – They say politics makes strange bedfellows, and this…

Will Conservatives Get Lost in the Fog of Common Core?

The Common Core battle is a fog covering the real issues facing…

Education Reform in Iowa Goes to Legislature Conference Committee

Conflicting education reform bills are being discussed in a joint Iowa House and Senate Conference Committee to iron out differences.

Increase in Education Spending Will Not Increase Student Performance

Iowa Senate Democrats passed an education reform bill that increases spending, but provides no accountability for the Iowa Department of Education.

Iowa House Passes Education Reform Bill: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Iowa House passed HF 215, Governor Terry Branstad’s education reform bill, here are the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of this bill as amended.

Standardizing Knowledge Won’t Lead to Creativity or Innovation

Christopher Tienken dismantles the Common Core State Standards and speaks out against standardizing knowledge and the loss of local control in education.

International Baccalaureate and Local Control

International Baccalaureate (IB) is harmless right?  It just helps students gain an…

Exactly How Do You Define Terrorism?

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Techology/Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division released…