Branstad said with a split-control Legislature he wants to be productive and not try to set up situations where the two chambers pick fights. The governor said hes trying to be realistic about the art of the possible.
Gov. Terry Branstad said Thursday the proposal to tap the taxpayer relief account to cover the property tax piece of the allowable growth formula would be a non-starter.
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Majority Senate Democrats also propose taking $38.5 million from the states special taxpayer trust fund account to cover the property tax implications of a 4 percent boost in state aid $16 million to cover the 12.5 percent property tax share under the school aid formula and another $22 million to address tax inequities between property-rich and property-poor school districts.
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DES MOINES Iowa Senate Democrats announced Thursday they will seek a 4 percent increase in base funding for K-12 schools for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, aduedu1447.typepad.com called the 4 percent allowable growth increase a modest boost that would translate into about $134 million in state aid.
He said having the GOP governor trying to bully legislators is not helpful when it appears that he will need support from Democrats to pass his education reform package in a House where Republicans hold a 53-46 majority.
House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, R-Hiawatha, said the 4 percent growth rate that Senate Democrats are proposing does not seem sustainable.
We can do more for education and we can do it without increasing property taxes.
He signaled that he expects lawmakers to approve the reforms before talks turn to education spending. To that end, he did not include any new money in his fiscal 2014 budget proposal to fund allowable growth for K-12 schools.
Gronstal said he expects the Senate to complete work on the 4 percent proposal by the end of January and then finalize the growth rate for fiscal 2015. He said Democrats have not decided what percentage increase to request for the 2014-15 school year.
Earlier this week, Branstad detailed a five-year, $187 million education reform proposal that would increase pay for new educators from a minimum of $28,000 to a minimum of $35,000 in the next five years and redo career paths for teachers previously approved in 2001 but never adequately funded.
This is going nowhere with House Republicans, he said.
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The states reserve and rainy day funds are overflowing, said Senate President Pam Jochum, D-Dubuque. After several years of tight budgets, it is simply not true that the state cant do more to help pay for basic school needs like textbooks, heating classrooms and paying salaries.
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That did not sit well with House Democratic Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Des Moines, who took the governors remarks as a my-way-or-the-highway ultimatum.
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At a darkened train station, the teenager and the purported jihadi pulled into a quiet lot where mSenate Democrats ask 4% school funding growthonths of planning were to culminate in this:
He said it is imperative that the General Assembly move quickly because Iowas 348 school districts are finishing their budget decisions and may have to start sending out pink slips to teachers and other personnel if there is no certainty soon in how much state money they can expect next school year.
Paulsen said he expects a House subcommittee will begin work next week on the governors education reform plan while Gronstal said Senate Democrats plan to move forward on the allowable growth issue, adding, Its time for the state of Iowa to step up and do the right thing for Iowas students.
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House Democratic Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Des Moines, said minority Democrats in the House have not discussed their allowable growth recommendations, but he expected they weducation reformould support at least a 4 percent increase for fiscal 2014.
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Thats a lot of money, he told reporters. That would be difficult to carry forward.
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