A history of Iowa school funding

The Constitution does not guarantee a right to an education and the 10th Amendment clarifies that powers not explicitly stated become the responsibility of the states. When Iowa became a State on Dec. 28, 1846, education was provided when groups of families pooled their resources to hire a teacher and build one-room schoolhouses. Eighteen years later, the 1864 Iowa legislature created a new governance board (precursor to the Iowa Department of Education) and created what we now call local school boards and defined what authority they would have.