Panel backs block grants for schools
DES MOINES Iowa lawmakers moved the first piece of the education reform package through the Senate Education Committee a 7 million block grant bill to help elementary classrooms. Sen Don Redfern said districts could decide uses while reporting how funds are spent and suggested applications include curriculum development teacher aides longer school days or years. Critics argued the amount is inadequate and trivial compared with goals for reform.
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Rod Boshart
Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Senate Education Committee
Don Redfern
Cedar Falls
Block grant plan allocates per pupil funds to early grades
The proposed program would add per pupil funding for kindergartens through third grade with a guaranteed minimum of $10,000 per district. Examples show Cedar Rapids Linn-Mar and others receiving varying sums like $215,441 $127,229 and $54,152, highlighting district allocations.
Panel extends school aid sunset and orders study panel
The panel voted to extend by one year the current school foundation aid formula set to expire July 1 2001 and to establish a bipartisan committee to study issues related to a rewrite and report back by February 1. House Majority Leader Brent Siegrist said he supports the study panel but was not consulted about delaying the sunset to July 1 2002.
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Brent Siegrist
Council Bluffs
Fewer women and youths join Iowa’s shrinking labor pool
Iowa faces a broad labor shortage as fewer young people and women enter the workforce, slowing job growth. Officials say the state has “run out of that pool,” despite a $360 million surplus and unemployment near 3 percent. Wages rise as employers compete for scarce workers. minority and disabled workers rejoin the labor pool to help fill gaps.
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Iowa
DES Moines
Jeff Nall
Iowa Workforce Development
Nall
Economic Development Joint Appropriations Subcommittee
Lawmakers study fate of cottonwoods
In Des Moines the Senate Natural Resources Committee advances a bill classifying cottonwoods as a nuisance and mandating removal. Supporters argue local governments should decide, while opponents note riverbank trees prevent erosion and provide shade. The measure, a low priority, faces state versus local control questions.
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Mazelle Servey
Des Moines
Senate Natural Resources Committee
Mary Lou Freeman
Storm Lake
Rosemary Thomson
R-Marion
Marion Parks
Freeman
Gazette Legislature Coverage Focuses on Key Deliberations
Gazette Online highlights current Louisiana Legislature action with emphasis on committee votes, bill status, and notable deployments of lawmakers. Readers see reform proposals, fiscal issues, and procedural developments guiding policy and governance in Baton Rouge.
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Gazette Online.com
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House panel approves bill to ban partial birth abortion
In Des Moines the House Human Resources Committee voted 19-2 to send Senate File 2073 to the debate calendar amid emotional remarks. Proponents call the procedure horrific and unconstitutional while opponents fear medical life saving exceptions and legal challenges.
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Senate
Rod Boshart
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Terry Branstad
House Human Resources Committee
Jack Kervorkian
Gary Blodgett
Reason City
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