Our ‘Sinister’ Agendas

My View

I am disappointed and angered by the latest attacks against public education across our country. In my own state, Iowa’s 2022 legislative session opened with remarks from our governor and a state senator complaining about sinister agendas, lack of transparency and smuggled obscene materials in schools.

As school leaders, we must look beyond these distracting comments and help the public understand how we operate with transparency and provide rights to students and parents.

In Iowa, public schools are required to teach the state’s core curriculum, which was signed into law in 2008. The core started with mandated standards for English language arts and math and then expanded across other subjects under two governors during the past decade.