Vouchers defeated in Iowa legislature
House Education Committee Chairman Rep. Walt Rogers said a controversial plan to enact an education savings account program and expand charter school access will not advance this year. "I think it’s a big paradigm shift, and so it takes a little while in this building to change the ideas and change paradigms about the way people think," said Rogers, R-Cedar Falls. "So it’s something that I really believe in and will continue to work for." The bill was scheduled for a committee vote Thursday afternoon, but Rogers said there was not enough support to advance it by this week's legislative deadline.
This is a triumph of the resistance. I know personally some of the people who have been fighting since last January to defend and promote public education. Facebook groups and other grassroots groups have worked hard at getting information out, calling on people to write or call legislators, and turning up at hearings.
Keep it up; it works!
UPDATE
Looser gun regulations went down in flames