Republican lawmakers’ efforts to protect children from books and material they view as obscene would extend beyond schools to all public libraries under a proposal advanced Monday. Opponents say Iowa law already includes a test that determines whether books and other materials are obscene.
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The general state funding increase would be the lowest in at least five years; Republicans say the proposals are sustainable, while Democrats say they are woefully inadequate
Also, House Republicans advanced a bill that would require citizenship information on Iowa driver’s licenses
GOP lawmakers reject amendments offered by Democrats condemning white nationalists pardoned by Trump
Iowa House lawmakers this week advanced several bills aimed at closing Iowa's growing shortage of physicians.
Republican lawmakers Wednesday advanced
Pulitzer Prize-winning Iowa author Marilynne Robinson reacted to the use of her name last week by a researcher and writer for the conservative National Association of Scholars, who urged Iowa lawmakers to solve a “civic literacy crisis,” and pointed to Robinson as an Iowan who embodies “the civics education and civic literacy of times past.”
Committee chair thinks that’s ‘a major problem’
Also, a special election has been set to fill a vacant Iowa House seat after the death of a state lawmaker
Shortly after an analyst from a high-profile conservative policy group two weeks ago presented lawmakers with evidence that more than 20 programs across Iowa’s public universities have a negative “return on investment,” a member of the Board of Regents contacted her with questions.
Warning Iowa is suffering from a “crisis in civics literacy,” a representative from the National Association of Scholars on Wednesday urged lawmakers to reform public university general education requirements, establish autonomous civics schools on its university campuses, and ensure education accrediting bodies can’t block Iowa’s reform laws.
Proponent objects to Iowa permit given carbon capture pipeline
Iowa schools would be required to replace references to the Gulf of Mexico and the Alaskan peak Denali with references to the “Gulf of America” and “Mount McKinley,” respectively, in all classroom instruction and in all new handouts provided to students, under a bill advanced by Iowa lawmakers.
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