Articles Tagged: Kim Reynolds

Gov. Kim Reynolds calls changes to Iowa’s area education agencies ‘meaningful and necessary reform’

The Iowa Senate will vote whether to confirm former Trump administration education official McKenzie Snow as director of the Iowa Department of Education

You get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit. During my decade of volunteer service to a program …

Iowa law enforcement officials will be allowed to arrest and order the removal of an immigrant who entered the U.S. illegally under a bill House lawmakers sent to Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday.

Lawmakers seek data on what unemployment tax cut could mean

Advocates hope the governor’s plan to combine mental health and substance use treatment networks will improve access for Iowans. But some worry that until other funding issues are addressed — like low Medicaid reimbursement rates — “We're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”

The governor’s endorsement comes after she supported Ron DeSantis in Iowa’s GOP caucuses.

Also, the Iowa House passes legislation that would cap tuition and limit diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the state’s three public universities

The scores of less than 1 percent of the Iowa students in special education are being cited by the governor as the primary reason she is proposing to overhaul the state’s area education agencies.

State lawmakers honored the new all-time women’s basketball scoring leader as ‘one of the greatest collegiate athletes of all time’

Republicans say the proposal expands post-partum care for low-income Iowans who need it most, while Democrats say it expands care for some low-income Iowans at the expense of coverage for others.

Iowa Senate Republicans advanced Gov. Kim Reynolds’ legislation that would accelerate previously planned state income tax reductions. But the top Senate Republican on tax policy said legislators, in the coming weeks, also will advance their own proposal, which includes an eventual elimination of the state income tax.

Last week was “funnel week” at the Iowa Statehouse — the deadline for legislation to pass out of committee in …

Special education advocates call it an ‘improvement,’ but say changes are still needed.

Senate goes with governor’s plan, House offers more modest cuts