The program is projected to spend roughly $315 million annually in state funding to roughly $7,600 annual scholarships for, eventually, any Iowa student to put toward private school tuition and other education-related expenses.
The state paid a Virginia-based consulting firm nearly $1 million to interview state officials and make recommendations, which are now in Reynolds’ 1,600-page bill.
Republican state lawmakers continued to advance bills opponents say target and discriminate against Iowa’s LGBTQ community.
The suit was filed in December 2021 after the governor’s office had failed to respond for up to 18 months to records requests from three separate organizations.
South Carolina U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, a prospective 2024 Republican presidential candidate, stopped in Des Moines as part of his “Faith In America” listening tour.
While the proposal restates existing law, county attorneys worry it could enable the AG to undermine their work
The head of Iowa's Department of Education is stepping down next month to pursue other opportunities, the Iowa Governor’s Office announced Friday.
Proponents of the legislation said it’s needed to help contain insurance costs for hospitals, and to help recruit and retain doctors, especially in rural areas of the state.
Representatives from Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa, as well as people who have experience working in and receiving care from crisis pregnancy centers, said at a news conference Wednesday the proposed $1.5 million increase in funding to the 55 centers in the state would further erode reproductive health care.
More jobs would be open to Iowa teenagers under a bill House lawmakers advanced on Tuesday.
Senate Republicans advanced Gov. Kim Reynolds’ sweeping health care bill, but removed a provision that would allow pharmacists to dispense birth control without a prescription.
Iowa's congressional delegation joined bipartisan lawmakers from Midwestern states in a letter calling on the Biden administration to permit the sale of higher ethanol fuel blends year-round.
Blind Iowans expressed their concern with how Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposed realignment of state government will impact them and the state services that help them.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday said it is her goal to abolish state income tax by the end of her four-year term in 2026.
Iowa political figures on both sides of the aisle weigh in on President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address Tuesday night.
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