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House Republicans Approve $500 Million in Spending Cuts (CR Gazette, January 20, 2011)

House Republicans Approve $500 Million in Spending Cuts

Cedar Rapids Gazette
January 20, 2011

By: James Q. Lynch

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Cancelling that investment [preschool] is the wrong priority, Rep. Tyler Olson, D-Cedar Rapids, and would send the wrong message to Iowa businesses that proposed the program that now enrolls more than 20,000 children in 326 of the state’s 359 school districts and collaborates with 465 community partners.

The council’s goal was to make Iowa more attractive to employees and improve the workforce, he said.
"I have never had a single business leader or economic developer say the answer to Iowa competiveness is to do less in education."

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