She was the only person involved in public schools there. She had some interesting things to say about the meeting:


“I was surprised by the imbalance of people at this meeting today,” she told The Courier in an interview after the event. “Out of 14 people, I was the only public school advocate. I quickly realized the responsibility and, quite honestly, the burden of speaking for the hundreds of thousands of kids who are in public education in Iowa.”

and also:

Lindaman, who has been a critic of attempts by state lawmakers to divert public education funding using vouchers, didn’t see this scholarship plan as much different.

“Voucher programs can be packaged under many names, but the basic premise is typically the same,” she said. “Programs that divert dollars away from public education always catch my attention.”

The superintendent said she suggested to DeVos and Reynolds that “the greatest amount of those dollars should be reserved for public schools ... since public schools serve 94 percent of (Iowa) students.”


Public funds need public accountability! We Democrats need to retake the legislature and Terrace Hill and get these theocratic, greedy R's hands out of the public till and out of power.

Here's the article: https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waterloo-superintendent-surprised-by-the-imbalance-of-public-school-advocates/article_a641c183-c005-5ec6-84ab-6eab2c9c1ea1.html

That really fleshes things out.

I happened to run into our former superintendent Friday night and he just got disgusted when I told him what happened.