Des Moines Register

We asked last month “What do you want from Iowa’s next governor?” Readers’ answers focused on both policy and temperament. The process of finding the name that best aligns with Iowans’ wishes is well under way; it’s just nine months until the Republican and Democratic primary elections.

Help for rural schools

The next governor of our state must focus more on the education of all children in rural and public schools by providing them enough funds to adequately educate the students. Rural schools are suffering the most in my opinion.

The governor cannot pay parents to send their children to private schools and short the public schools of funds.

When I was an administrator from 1965 to 1993, that school district had money to add new courses and teachers as needed. T

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