State of Iowa 2024 by the numbers.
- Thread starter NorthernHawkeye
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#1 fastest rising cancer rate (one of only two states where cancer is up)
Dropped out of top ten states for educational achievement (went to #1 under Vilsack)
Iowa was #1 in fiscal stability under Vilsack. Also dropped out of the top ten, to 12 on Kimmy’s watch as we face a 100 million dollar budget shortfall due to her irresponsible tax cuts for big business and the wealthy,
OP wants us to fall for that qunt’s propaganda. LMAO!
Dropped out of top ten states for educational achievement (went to #1 under Vilsack)
Iowa was #1 in fiscal stability under Vilsack. Also dropped out of the top ten, to 12 on Kimmy’s watch as we face a 100 million dollar budget shortfall due to her irresponsible tax cuts for big business and the wealthy,
OP wants us to fall for that qunt’s propaganda. LMAO!
I like how she promotes school choice…like that’s a good thing. She’s an idiot, too.
It’s not good it’s fantastic for parents and students.
I saw in a recent article about the food bank CEO retiring in Iowa that %42 of children in Iowa are on SNAP benefits/free and reduced lunch. I don’t things in this state are going as well for many as the governor would like to portray.
Per US News, who once had us #1 and now we sit #11…
-State assessments of student proficiency in reading/language arts and mathematics.
-College Readiness: 30% of the total score, this focuses on high school seniors who have taken and passed an AP or IB exam.
-College Curriculum Breadth: 10% of the total score.
-State Assessment Proficiency: 20% of the total score.
-State Assessment Performance: 20% of the total score.
-Underserved Student Performance: 10% of the total score.
-Graduation Rate: 10% of the total score.
Kimmy is doing a great job. Iowa really is a shining example of how a conservative approach leads to prosperous results.
Bullshit. Got it.
I’d rather just use test scores to measure school achievement.
We have 39% children being born with Medicaid as their insurance and %42 percent of children on SNAP. Seems to be a state with lots of people struggling to make ends meet.
I’ve lived here for 48 years.
Other than the landscape ( I prefer MN/WI) I have ZERO complaints.
No problems with healthcare. No problems with education. Nothing.
If you are willing to work hard and stay out of trouble you can have a good life.
Great place to raise a family.
Other than the landscape ( I prefer MN/WI) I have ZERO complaints.
No problems with healthcare. No problems with education. Nothing.
If you are willing to work hard and stay out of trouble you can have a good life.
Great place to raise a family.
Looks at watch and mutters "time to slap the spouse around"
-definitely Northern
You’ll never get an accurate ranking. The exams Iowa students take is not the same that Illinois students take. It’s all made up bs. I saw my school report card on U.S. News and World Report and they didn’t have our correct grades (we’re 1st-5th and they had us K-6) and were off by 150 in student population. States can literally throw any number they want out there.
It’s about an accurate ranking as it can get, but you are correct. There’s almost no really good National ranking metric. It’s about as good as any. And most importantly, no one disputes that our education system has been underfunded and over regulated under Kim’s government. Not surprising for a career bureaucrat who has kissed ass to the top.
Iowa DNR has been gutted and left for dead. AG and Industry allowed to pollute our lands and waterways at will. The facilities in our state parks are falling into disrepair.
But Northern keeps on smiling
I’m a two issue voter in Iowa.
AEA and legalizing weed. She’s on the wrong side of both and will never get my vote.
AEA and legalizing weed. She’s on the wrong side of both and will never get my vote.
I understand what you’re saying, but there is no national norms, none, so we have no idea how students compare from state to state. None, there is no test in place. It is impossible to correctly rank student success from state to state.
That really stands out. Where did that ranking come from?#1 state for retirement?
Some are the same. Pisa and act results can be realistically compared.
Many states used to give the itbs. Book companies and republicans, under the guise of school choice, have intervened to give multiple assessments that reduce comparisons that we used to have. There is big money in convincing the general public that education is a mess and the private sector can fix it.
Iowa used to be a good place to raise a family. Today it’s Not nearly the same place that I raised mine in years ago.
I love how she didn’t talk about actual education outcomes…
I love how she didn’t talk about actual education outcomes…
That's because the wrong types of people are multiplying the quickest. We need to stop that.
Or someone with a disability (kicked off state insurance)
Or a public school kid who’s had funding robbed from them.
Or to avoid cancer.
Or to be healthy (given our obesity rate, poor air, and poor water)
Or to get a life saving medical abortion as a woman.
Or to avoid child labor.
Or to be Black (horrendous inequalities and sentencing disparities)
Face it, the state is getting worse on Republicans’ watch.
When I was a kid, Iowa was #1 in primary education. Now they are #4 in educational choice.
To be fair a lot of older Iowans stay and die here. I guess that boosts the retirement number? Only the dull and the poor like the OP stick around.
People with money and young Iowans are leaving this state as fast as they can.
People with money and young Iowans are leaving this state as fast as they can.
Imagine being the OP. This board is all you have, and you aren’t even good at that. Boring and not terribly clever. No sense of humor. Couldn’t make an OP’s mom joke or a wouldja comment to save his life. A poor. Alone and angry all the time. Sports illiterate.
Just sad.
Just sad.
You have 123,000 posts. I think this board is all YOU have.
Probably cost of living related.
I assume that your SS check goes a lot farther than in California or most other states.
