Not reduce taxes. D SD b. Cut taxes for all Iowans, but give a larger cut to middle-class families. Many Iowa communities and school districts have unmet building needs. The state of Iowa should set up a fund to help local schools with potential fire and safety problems. Many Iowa children attend classes in crowded classrooms.
Disruptive students make it difficult for teachers to teach and for students to learn.
The Legislature should allow local districts to do more to require students to act responsibility and respectfully. The Legislature should do more to make higher education affordable for Iowa high school graduates, regardless of their family income. To ease overcrowding, the Legislature built new prisons in Clarinda, Newton, and Fort Dodge, and new cells at Fort Madison. We should now find other types of punishment for non-violent criminals, like electronic monitoring and substance abuse treatment in local communities, rather than building new prisons. Iowa law requires convicted first-degree murderers to spend their life in prison, without chance of parole.