Gazette editorial calls funding or delaying K-12 mandates
The Gazette urges lawmakers to fund new Smarter Balanced testing and third grade literacy programs or suspend mandates until money is available. It notes the switch costs districts roughly 10 million for tests plus 14 million for reading programs, with Cedar Rapids facing a 2.3 million budget cut and no state earmark.
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Voices on voting rights and public figures in Iowa and beyond
Readers weigh in on voting rights with focus on felon disenfranchisement and the Iowa Supreme Court case Griffin v Branstad The letters also critique Vatican stance on same sex marriage praising Sen Susan Collins for supporting Merrick Garland and denounce perceived Republican stonewalling.
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Williams defends founders against Sanders on slavery at Liberty University
Walter E. Williams argues that slavery was a difficult but necessary compromise in forming the U S union. He notes Southern and Northern states clashed over slavery while drafting the Constitution and questions whether a non ratified union would have benefited Black Americans.
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Gridlock Meets Garland and Grassley in Private Breakfast
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley and Judge Merrick Garland had a roughly hourlong breakfast in a private Senate dining room. The meeting produced no votes or hearings and Grassley is blocking Garland’s nomination, leaving the Supreme Court at eight justices until a future president.
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