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Iowa Senate considering state scholarships to attend private school
Jesse Howard of the New London School Board.
The governor’s plan to provide $5,000 state scholarships to cover private school or homeschooling expenses is being debated in the Iowa Senate this week.
The plan would also stop administrators in five school districts with voluntary diversity plans from denying open enrollment transfers out of those districts.
“We’re empowering parents with the ability to choose what’s best for their children,” Logan Shine, one of Governor Kim Reynolds’ policy advisors, said this morning.
Trish Wilger, executive director of Iowa Alliance for Choice in Education, was one of two people to speak in favor of the concept at a subcommittee hearing this morning.