Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is challenging legislators to make a decision about state aid for Iowa’s public schools for NEXT year.

Democrats and Republicans have been unable to agree on how much more general state assistance should be forwarded to the state’s public school districts, but a tentative deal legislative leaders reached may resolve the impasse for the academic year that starts in three months.

The governor says legislators should decide NOW about state school aid for the following year as well.

Branstad says he is reserving judgment on the tentative deal for the upcoming school years that would see districts get about 100-million more in state funding for general operations.