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I haven't heard what, if anything was accomplished in
today's special session. I found out it cost $38,000 just
to meet that one day. According to Siegrist, the money
would have been better spent hiring a teacher somewhere. He
said"You don't call a special session unless you have a
deal. Since the legislature spent, in reality, more money
than it was comfortable with in the regular session, to
demand they come back a week later to spend even more makes
no sense whatsoever." I agree!
kathy /blockquote>

I don't think that we have the same understanding of what they
were asked to do... I understood it to be spending the same
amount of money, just spending it differently.

How can you hire another teacher with that $38,000, when the
allowable growth doesn't permit it? My district is closing a
buildin...See More
Apr 23, 2002
Vic /blockquote>

Not only that, but they only met for 5 hours. Maybe they should
have met until they agreed on doing something for Iowa's
children.

On 4/23/02, kathy wrote:
> I don't think that we have the same understanding of what they
> were asked to do... I understood it to be spending the same
> am...See More
Apr 27, 2002


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