The company overseeing Iowa's education savings account program is being paid more than the state originally agreed to after the contract was amended without adequate documentation, according to an ...

Many critics have warned Iowa could be inviting spending nightmares and outright fraud like what’s been reported from similar programs in other states. Arizona had a $1.4 billion budget shortfall this ...

POLICE SAY SHE WAS ALSO DRIVING DRUNK. IOWA’S NEW PRIVATE SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WILL COST THE STATE ROUGHLY $128 MILLION. THAT’S MILLIONS MORE THAN THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATE. CHIEF POLITICAL REPORTER ...

State Rep. John Wills serves as Iowa House speaker pro tempore. Lisa B. Nelson is CEO of the American Legislative Exchange Council in Arlington, Virginia. As school bells ring across Iowa this week, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand is calling on Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Departments of Education and Revenue to allow his office to audit the state's Education Savings Account (ESA ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds reacts after signing a bill that creates education savings accounts, on Jan. 24, 2023, at the Statehouse in Des Moines. Any Iowa student who wants to attend a private school ...

A year ago, Iowa started handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent on private K-12 schools. Before and since, the opinion pieces I’ve published in this section have mostly debated the ...

This fall, more than 18,000 Iowa students could have their K-12 private schooling paid for by taxpayers, courtesy of a new "school choice" law. Iowa has approved 18,627 applications for education ...