Iowa Association of Christian Schools
The Public Policy Voice of Iowa's Protestant, Christ-Centered Schools.
It’s School Choice Week this week! Join us as we celebrate school choice in Iowa and across the country!
Iowa is blessed to have limited public school choice, the Educational Opportunities ACT (STO Tax Credit), homeschool freedom, at personal tuition tax credit, and more on the way!
You can learn more about School Choice Week by visiting their website. There are events throughout Iowa. Also, please join our email list and we’ll keep you in the loop on the latest school choice news in Iowa!
The Iowa Association of Christian Schools was proud to have representation at the this year’s signing of the School Choice Week Proclamation. Proclamations are a way for Governors to honor and/or celebrate issues or events and distribute important information and concepts to Iowans.
Governor Terry Branstad signs this year’s School Choice Week Proclamation
The last couple of years have seen School Choice Week and Catholic Schools Week fall on the same week. This signing ceremony saw the signing of both proclamations. We had students and staff from Des Moines Christian School and Iowa Christian Academy as well as representation from the Iowa Alliance for Choice in Education and its sister organization, Iowa Advocates for Choice in Education.
Thank you, Governor Branstad, for recognizing the importance of school choice in Iowa and helping us celebrate the accomplishments to this point in giving parents and students more options in education. We firmly believe that a child’s education should never be limited by their income or zip code of residence. We are looking forward to working with Governor Branstad and leaders from both parties on advancing school choice in Iowa.
You can read Iowa School Choice Week ’14.
Welcome to our new website! We have invested in a new website with new features to make it easier for IACS to communicate with you and for you to communicate with your elected officials. Please take a moment today and sign up for our email list by visiting the “Action Center” to the right of this post. We’ll only send you emails when we publish our occasional newsletters or when there is an important call-to-action during the legislative session.
The latest newsletter is out today! You can read more about the changes to our website, a preview of the 2014 legislative session, and more by reading our 2014 Session Preview newsletter!
What makes this story so great is the sportsmanship and care shown by Des Moines Christian School students after their loss to EDF. Moments like this are why IACS fights so hard for its schools! Congratulations on a great season! We are extremely proud of you!
Iowa Alliance for Choice in Education released this video explaining Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). IACS is fully on board: