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Do you want school choice with Savings Accounts in Iowa?

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Photo: Oliver Contreras-Pool via Getty Images

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Image by Oliver Contreras-Pool via Getty Images

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was in Iowa last week. She was pushing School Choice.

For quite a few years now, Republicans have been in charge here and have told us that School Choice was coming. Now again in 2019, that seems unlikely at best.

DeVos was here to talk about the Federal "Education Freedom Scholarships" which would create a $5 billion tax credit to fund scholarships for private schools and other educational programs.

At the State level, numerous attempts to get Education Savings Accounts on the books have failed - sespiteAt State level, Republicans have repeatedly failed to get Education Savings Accounts - ESAs - on the books despite their enormous success in other States like Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

There is no question that this is a complicated subject. Shane Vander Hart at CagffinatedThere is no doubt this is a complicated matter. Shane Vander Hart at Caffeinated Thoughts is my go-to guy on the subject. All that appears to be left now is an attempt to get some kind of school choice on the books for the 2020-21 school year just for special needs kids. That effort too now seems doomed.

"Should the bill pass starting in the 2020-2021 school year, K-12 students enrolled in a nonpublic school or paying tuition at another public school when denied open enrollment who have an individual educational plan (IEP) or who are considered to have a disability under federal law are eligible to apply for an ESA administered through the Iowa Department of Management," Shane wrote.

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