CHARLES CITY – Rep. Rep. Todd Prichard, representing Floyd county opposes public money for private charter schools in Iowa, he said today in an email statement:
In the middle of the night, the majority party in the House passed legislation that overhauls Iowa’s charter school law. I opposed these changes for several reasons. I am a firm believer that public money should be for public schools. The legislation authorized the creation of charter schools funded with public tax dollars without the same transparency requirements as our public schools.
These charter schools also do not have elected school boards that are accountable to constituents and do not require the founding group of a charter to even be a member of the community where the charter school is being created.
We should be working to support our public schools to make up for lost time this past year not creating new unaccountable charter schools. In the end, the new law just further stresses our already under funded rural schools by siphoning away critical resources.
Feel free to reach out with questions or concerns. You can find my contact information at the bottom of this newsletter.
Well obummer is not finished yet – He still lives thru joe skull. Fancy that U.N. hosposh !
No school would be better than public/prison indoctrination fool school. People are forced to pay taxes for public joke schools, private schools need to get the same amount of $ or split the forced/stolen $ with the private learning havens. Discrimination is what the Democrats claim to oppose this is their opportunity to prove their mantra. my view
Your right about public school’s indoctrination of our youth – hate America agenda. It’s All taxpayers money so divide it and like it. Todd the toad bs.
Why would we want our tax money to actually educate our children. Everyone knows it’s for the teachers union.
Toddly is against it because his party loses out on precious indoctrination time, now more has to be done when the child goes to collage.
public, private, charter, let the parents decide, its their money
how bout l stop paying for public education and send my children to private school?
Teachers’ unions refuse to do their jobs (instructing children in person, in a classroom setting) by declaring that “if one teacher dies, isn’t that too many?” It is time to decertify the teachers unions.
Of course he is against it. He is in the teachers union’s pocket. The tax money belongs to each individual and should be used how ever they want it.