New bill raises the Iowa education standard

Brett Blakemore
Sports Editor
The standard of education has been an issue in the US for many years now, and the state of Iowa believe they have the thing to raise just that. As of today, Governor Branstad signed a bill making scoring a 25 on the ACT test a requirement to graduate high school. This now goes along with the standing requirements of completing guideways at ihaveaplaniowa.org and giving a senior presentation.
“This will force Iowa students to study and become the elite of students in their age group,” legislator Seth Rollins said. “It’s about time we become a trailblazer in education, even if it leads to some studying and test taking from students.”
This is the first time a bill like this has successfully passed and made it to law after multiple attempts in 2012. The bill will go into effect for the school year of 2015-2016 and will have no exceptions to the requirements.

“It was important to me to force kids to start studying and build test taking skills,” Rollins said. “Taking a test upwards of six or seven times is just the way to do that.”

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