Republicans and three Democrats in the Iowa Senate approved a plan to boost per pupil state spending for Iowa’s public K-through-12 schools by a total of 79 million dollars. House Republicans voted to endorse that level of spending earlier this week. Representative Cecil Dolecheck is a Republican from Mount Ayr.
Democrats like Representative Heather Matson of Ankeny say it’s not enough.
It extends extra state money to schools dealing with big transportation budgets, plus about 170 districts will get about five dollars more per pupil. That’s meant to deal with a problem in Iowa’s school funding formula that has meant some districts have been getting less in per pupil funding than others.
