As Iowa lawmakers ended the 2024 legislative session, Republican leaders said they passed their priorities, including changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies, many K-12 education initiatives and income tax cuts.
“Iowa has set a course for transformation, and it was the driving force of the 2024 legislative session,” Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement after the session concluded at 4:23 a.m. Saturday.
The course of this year’s legislative session was dominated primarily by the governor’s proposal making major changes to Iowa’s AEAs, the nine agencies providing special education services in addition to other education and media service support for K-12 schools throughout the state.
The law signed in March was significantly scaled back from the governor’s initial proposal to send all state and federal special education funding currently going to AEAs directly to public school districts instead. But the three-month path to that…
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