The following is a legislative update from Republican State Senator Doug Campbell of Mason City, representing portions of Worth, Mitchell, Cerro Gordo and Floyd counties in Iowa Senate District 30:
Heading into week 6, which is the last week of the first funnel, the session is in full swing!
I was invited to speak at two subcommittees, one for Senator Lofgren and one for Senator Salmon.
Local school officials said a proposal advanced by Iowa lawmakers this week to increase state per-pupil funding is insufficient to support rising operational costs. This bill, Senate File 2201, was proposed by Senate Republicans for K-12 education funding for the next fiscal year. This bill is an increase of nearly $100 million for the next school year and brings total spending on K-12 education by the state to $4.35 billion. Under this bill, the state would be spending $8,133 per student in Iowa, not including local or federal sources of money. Including all sources of funding – state, federal and local – Iowans are investing over $19,200 per student. The state’s funding formula for how much public-school districts can spend on operations each year uses the district’s certified enrollment multiplied by a per-pupil amount, which is $7,988 this year and would be bumped up to $8,133 next year under the bill. This proposal was passed by the Senate this week. Public school enrollment has declined, and school employees have increased. This expenditure represents 50% of the state’s budget.
The Iowa Court of Appeals has denied Walmart’s effort to cut millions in property taxes for its store in Marshalltown. The Marshall County Assessor appraised the store at $13,323,780 in January of 2023. Walmart contested the property tax assessment, saying it should be $8,332,680. Walmart argued the county evaluation was not proper because it was based on the building being leased and not owner-occupied. The Court of Appeals ruled the methods the county expert used in the appraisal were more credible than Walmart’s appraiser. This would have possibly initiated a negative trend in retail tax assessment. It is both interesting and gratifying that this action only applied to Marshalltown’s Walmart and not the 69 other locations in Iowa.
Iowa House lawmakers advanced Gov. Kim Reynolds’ sweeping health care legislation, which includes codifying SNAP and Summer EBT waivers and allowing over-the-counter ivermectin, on Thursday (House Study Bill 694).
Continuing the Mercy Iowa City bankruptcy saga now in its third year, a judge this week denied MercyOne’s request to dismiss the liquidated hospital’s complaint against it, in part, for being too long, detailed, and wordy.
This is a snapshot of where taxes come from and where they go.
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18 thoughts on “Iowa Senator Doug Campbell says Senate advances school spending bill worth $8,133 per student”
What has he forced you into?
Ask Doug about the “drug” he created, gave to friends, and got them deathly ill. Campbell is not what you think
Campbell cheated to get his position by not reporting income to the state and manipulating the CG County GOP. HE”S A LOSER
NITwit, up your meds.
Exactly!
What is the percentage of increase in school funding? Does it match the inflatoin rate because if it doesn’t, it makes it virtually impossible for the schools to fund their budgets. Campbell doesn’t mention the increased monies for private schools and how that increase affects the rest of the budget.
Apparently equals $8,133 per student
What equals $8,133? I asked what the percentage was. If you think $8,133 is a percentage, then you didn’t get very far in school.
$8,133 = about at least twice as much as should be spent. Time to shut it all down.
If we “shut it all down” where will all the children go? Is trump opening up a bunch of trump elementaries, trump middle school, and trump high schools?
Nice that you would burden Trump with dealing with “where will all the children go” as if it is his personal job to babysit all the kids that the parents cant even handle thmselves. Maybe the little angels can march around and protest / destroy federal buildings and commercial properties, or maybe your neighborhood? Anyway, you should think hard, because schools and education are in big trouble as AI invades all facets of life. Teachers are toast. School buildings soon to be obsolete. Education itself is up for debate. Perhaps kids should stay home and be with their family and absorb some morals instead of “learning” from nutball teachers that cannot “do” anything but be glorified babysitters or push rainbow lifestyles. Times are changing, better keep up.
You are delusional.
Minnesota education
More likely a Missouri or Florida education, if he has one at all.
Trump finds a way to personally profit almost anything that goes on in this country. Now he has trademarked “Trump International Airport” so. when he names an airport after himself, only he can profit from the merch he intends to sell with that name on it. As for burdening him, he is so fearful that he will go down in history as one of the worst Presidents ever, he wants his name on everything so no one will forget him. Well, no one will forget him that is for sure, but I am sure plenty will wish they could. His biggest threat is towards Mt Rushmore. He thinks he should be on it and if he decides to deface that historic national monument with his likeness, he will ruin it just like he has ruined the Kennedy Center.
Everything Trump touches he trashes.
Yup, that is why he is successful huh
he is ‘successful’ because he cheats people and uses his power to force people into deals they don’t want to make. 6 bankruptcies.