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Here’s a possible way to improve Iowa’s math scores

— and a way to pay for it, too

Ed Tibbetts

Posted 2/18/25

A few weeks ago, in her Condition of the State address, Iowa’s governor told us how she was going to Illinois this spring to convince businesses to come to Iowa.

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Here’s a possible way to improve Iowa’s math scores

— and a way to pay for it, too

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