Iowa Department of Education

I find it amusing that Brad Zaun's bill introduced into committee to do away with the IDOE has met with so much opposition. I thought we were looking at a total overhaul of education in Iowa? Why wouldn't the top dogs be under the microscope? If you have a school in need of improvement, and this goes on for a number of years, the State would step in and replace the administration (the "State" has never had the guts to do this). So if education in Iowa has been on "the list" for a number of years, I'd start at the top too. The question that should be asked of everyone involved from top to bottom is, "just what have you done to make things better?" If the top people at the IDOE are offended by this, tough. Its a simple question, if this offends you professionally then I guess you can't answer it. I better add that even though things could be "better", things aren't terrible, we just are not performing at a level that we would like to be, and one of the ways to get money and attention is to turn it into some kind of "crisis".

There is one simple thing that could be done to make things better, and sometimes I feel I'm the only one who knows. I think you know what it is too, and just don't realize it. I won't reveal what it is until someone at the top asks me. (this is just a pathetic attempt to gain readers)