.@IAgovernor says no child should have to stay in a failing school. No one bothers to ask her which Iowa schools she thinks are failing. She and her predecessor, Branstad, have been in charge of public education in Iowa nonstop since 2011, and ... 🧵1/5 #ialegis
... the GOP has had the full trifecta in the statehouse since 2017. Instead of shirking responsibility toward public education & giving $$ to private schools, we need to ask, if our schools really are struggling, why? Why does IA have a drastic teacher shortage? ... 2/5 #ialegis
...Why are class sizes ballooning? Why have Iowa's child poverty rates soared over the past decade? Why are our children experiencing a mental health crisis, w/o adequate resources at school or in the medical community to help them? ... 3/5 #ialegis
... Why do Iowa kids experience unstable housing and come to school hungry? Each of these problems can be traced back directly to decisions made by the governor and the GOP-led legislature. The conversation we need to have around choices and accountability ... 4/5 #ialegis
... should focus on the adults in the Capitol who are responsible for public education in Iowa. I’m sure Republicans would like to point the finger at teachers, admins, and parents, but the buck stops with you, @iagovernor. 5/5 #ialegis
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