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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1920. ACLU affiliates are active in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. , and Puerto Rico . The budget of the ACLU in 2024 was $383 million.
The Register requested information from every Iowa school district in the state about how they responded to Senate File 496, including guidance provided to staff and a list of books removed.
The law also increases state per-pupil aid to schools by 2.5%, an increase of $191 per pupil, bringing total state funding for public K-12 schools to $3.8 billion.
Since Senate File 496's passage, education officials have pushed the Iowa Department of Education to give the state's 325 school districts guidance. Iowa schools may finally get help from the ...
Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock Community School District (RRMR) is a rural public school district headquartered in Rockford, Iowa. [2] It operates the RRMR Elementary School/Preschool and RRMR Junior-Senior High School, both in Rockford. [3] The district is mostly in Floyd County with sections in Cerro Gordo and Mitchell counties.
Legal battles concerning the separation of church and state originated in laws dating to 1938, which required religious instruction in school or provided state funding for religious schools. [143] The Catholic church was a leading proponent of such laws, and the primary opponents (the "separationists") were the ACLU, Americans United for ...
Data compiled from Iowa's 325 public school districts, found that since Senate File 496 went into effect in July 2023, almost 3,400 books have been removed from public school districts.
The state of Iowa had changed its scheme for funding public schools, and the numbers of students in area schools had decreased. [5] In January 2016 the Harmony district and the Van Buren Community School District agreed to begin a grade-sharing arrangement in which Harmony-zoned students attended Van Buren schools for grades 7–12.