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by Rep. Dustin Hite
It was another busy week at the Statehouse. I started on Monday by taking the gavel and sitting in the Speaker’s chair for the opening of Monday’s session. The rest of the week was filled with committees and subcommittees and is now ending with a blizzard. On Tuesday evening, the Iowa House passed House File 228, a bill which removes the ability of school districts to deny requests for open enrollment due to voluntary diversity plans adopted by the school districts. There are currently five districts in the state with voluntary diversity plans Des Moines, Waterloo, Postville, West Liberty, and Davenport and this bill now gives students in those districts the same option as students in all other districts to open enroll out. ....

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