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“The Senate made clear tonight that parents matter. Iowans want and deserve school choice and educational freedom for their children and I urge the House to get this across the finish line and send a bill to my desk," Governor Kim Reynolds said in a statement last night after the Iowa Senate passed the School Choice Bill.
"If education truly is the great equalizer, we should create opportunities for more families to provide their children with the education choice that’s best for them. That’s exactly what this legislation does,” she added.
In a 31-18 vote, SF 2369 passed and will now head to the Iowa House. The Governor has made this Bill a priority.
The Student First Scholarship Program would provide 10,000 scholarships for those K-12 students whose families want to enroll them in a private school for the next school year.
“This is not an attack on teachers and schools,” said State Senator Amy Sinclair (R - Allerton) who is the Bill's sponsor. “My child is a student at Wayne Community School district and I love him being there and I wouldn’t choose anything different for him. But here is the deal I can choose because I have the means. It is not about undermining the system that is serving our children.”
Now it's up to the House where the Bill has faced some Republican resistance as we have discussed.
So now that the Iowa Senate has passed school choice, do you think the House will?