http://blog.smartgrowthamerica.org/2009/06/09/chalk-up-a-victory-for-minnesota-and-neighborhood-schools/ News from around the country on creating better choices for our communities Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:58:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.smartgrowthamerica.org/2009/06/09/chalk-up-a-victory-for-minnesota-and-neighborhood-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-4863 Nancy Stillians Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:14:02 +0000 http://blog.smartgrowthamerica.org/?p=510#comment-4863 This article could be the breakthrough that activists in Iowa have been seeking now for a decade. Iowa's entire public school system from the State Board of Education down into the smallest school districts is now corrupted by a legal firm & development interests who in two decades managed to take over school maintenance funds via bogus bonding. Without a statewide newspaper, parents suing school boards who closed their neighborhood schools, were isolated and without help from outside. Iowa's 2009 legislature passed a bill HF 233 which effectively prohibits citizens from suing school boards. Once a national leader in public school education, Iowa is now a blind, grasping Oligarchy. New Concrete rules. Architects, contractors, pernicious lawyers, and political hacks have made Iowa's public schools sprawling purgatories for teachers and students, or have eliminated them those in neighborhoods & small towns. HELP like this word from outside revives the spirits of those about to give up the struggle. NS This article could be the breakthrough that activists in Iowa have been seeking now for a decade. Iowa’s entire public school system from the State Board of Education down into the smallest school districts is now corrupted by a legal firm & development interests who in two decades managed to take over school maintenance funds via bogus bonding. Without a statewide newspaper, parents suing school boards who closed their neighborhood schools, were isolated and without help from outside. Iowa’s 2009 legislature passed a bill HF 233 which effectively prohibits citizens from suing school boards. Once a national leader in public school education, Iowa is now a blind, grasping Oligarchy. New Concrete rules. Architects, contractors, pernicious lawyers, and political hacks have made Iowa’s public schools sprawling purgatories for teachers and students, or have eliminated them those in neighborhoods & small towns. HELP like this word from outside revives the spirits of those about to give up the struggle. NS

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