Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. AP image.
Says it is President Biden s problem to fix.
Posted: Apr 8, 2021 5:32 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says she has rejected a federal request to accept migrant children into the state, saying the need to find homes for them is the president s problem.”
Reynolds told WHO radio on Tuesday that her priority is the health and safety of Iowans and that the state doesn’t have facilities to house migrant children for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Reynolds’ stand on accepting immigrant children contrasts with her willingness to accept refugees coming into the United States in 2019 when then-President Donald Trump signed an executive order giving states the right to refuse to take refugees. Reynolds was among more than 30 governors who said they would.
Updated: 5:14 PM CDT Apr 6, 2021 The Iowa Senate passed a constitutional amendment Tuesday stating the Iowa Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion.The measure, which passed in a 30-17 vote, adds a “protection of life” section to the Iowa Constitution.The section reads that “To defend the dignity of all human life, and to protect mothers and unborn children from efforts to expand abortion even to the day of birth, we the people of the State of Iowa declare that this Constitution shall not be construed to recognize, grant, or secure a right to abortion or to require the public funding of abortion.”Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa said in a statement that the proposed constitutional amendment is opposed by groups across the state, including the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, ACLU of Iowa, Iowa Medical Society, League of Women Voters of Iowa and One Iowa.“Anti-abortion
For Immediate Release: March 11, 2021
Elected Officials, Community and Labor Organizations, Faith Leaders Join Effort to Memorialize Iowa COVID-19 Victims
Des Moines, Iowa – More than three dozen elected officials, community and grassroots organizations, labor unions, and more have joined an ongoing effort to memorialize Iowans who have lost their lives to COVID-19. Together, this coalition will recognize the more than 5,600 victims with a virtual wall on IowaCovidMemorial.org and memorial events surrounding the one year anniversary of the first Iowa COVID-19 death on March 24, 2021.
Iowa COVID-19 Memorial coalition partners include AFSCME Council 61, Iowa State Education Association, Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. The full list of partners can be found below.
Banning the “1619 Project” about the impact of slavery and Black Americans on U.S. history from Iowa schools as a state lawmaker proposes would “be a threat to public education,” says a Fairfield schoolteacher, echoing concerns of other educators.
House File 222, sponsored by Rep. Skyler Wheeler, R-Orange City, would ban schools, community colleges and state universities from using any history curriculum obtained from the 1619 Project, which was created by an Iowa native.
Wheeler said he has concerns the project is not historically accurate.
His bill, which passed an education subcommittee two weeks ago but has not been taken up more broadly, states that the Iowa Legislature “has a strong interest in promoting an accurate account of this nation’s history through public schools and forming young people into knowledgeable and patriotic citizens.” Public schools that use the project or similar curriculum could receive reduced funding if the legislation passes.