Governor Kim Reynolds wants to create a voucher program allowing Iowa students to go to private or charter schools. By allowing this open enrollment plan she is taking the tax payers’ dollars from the public schools and basically rewarding parents for removing their student. She says she’s doing this to help improve each child’s education when it actually cuts into the public education budget and hurts even more students.

How will your tax dollars be used? With public schools there is a required financial audit for public record to prove how the money is being spent. Neither private nor charter schools are required to do this. 

Public school districts are governed by locally elected officials who must answer to the people. Charter and private schools do not. 

Teachers across the country have had a tough year with the (already high) burnout rate increasing. There has been very little guidance for Iowa schools and now instead of being a champion for teachers she is kicking them while they’re down.

Tell Iowa politicians to keep the tax payers’ money in the Iowa public education system!