![]() Miller: Only way to save the Angels’ dumpster fire of a season is trying to restock the farm system through trades ( The Orange County Register) In an email obtained Thursday by The Daily Advertiser, LHSAA Executive Director Eddie Bonine gives a bleak appraisal of the current state of the LHSAA to the NFHS in his report on high school athletics in Louisiana, calling the organization a “proverbial dumpster fire.” ( The Advertiser) This year’s presidential race, which already has been compared to a dumpster fire more times than any other political battle in memory, could break a more serious record in November. Dumpster fire may also be used in the literal sense to mean a fire in a trash dumpster. Dumpster fire is primarily used in American English, as the word dumpster is primarily an American English term. The term dumpster fire has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. ![]() Many believe that it was first used on American sports talk radio around 2009, though a 2003 movie review in The Arizona Republic uses the term to mean something “stinky but insignificant”. The origin of the term dumpster fire is uncertain. Dumpster fire describes a situation that is already a mess, then is made worse by being set afire, figuratively. Opinion content represents the viewpoint of the author or The Gazette editorial board.Dumpster fire describes a situation which has been terribly mishandled, resulting in a disastrously chaotic outcome. Republicans rushed through a plan with little planning to gain attention, and Iowa will be smelling smoke from this dumpster fire for years to come.īruce Lear lives in Sioux City and has worked in public schools for 38 years. “Do we really want our child to attend a new, untested pop-up school?” Yes, there may be private schools popping up, but parents will have to ask themselves a question. Third, only 55 of Iowa’s 99 counties have a private school. That means a parent may apply for the voucher, be granted it, and then find no private school will accept their child because of learning disabilities or just doesn’t meet other private school standards. Second, there are no requirements for private schools to accept all students. First, there are no rules prohibiting private schools from raising their tuition. While Reynolds touted the voucher law as empowering parents, it empowers only a select few parents for three reasons. There are family income restrictions for the first two years of the plan and then everyone regardless of income may apply. You will begin to receive our Daily Opinion updates and our topical Pints & Politics newsletter. That cost will grow each year because the voucher amount is tied to the public-school per pupil funding. After all it’s $7,598 per student of free money to attend private schools, with few restrictions and virtually no accountability. It’s unclear if applicants are students already attending private schools or students enrolled in public schools.Īll this shouldn’t be a shock to those who voted for the private school entitlement. Money will gush from the public schools to private.īut because Reynolds’ administration is opaque, it is refusing to release the demographic information of the applicants. ![]() It also means in the third year the $345 million estimated annual cost will be low. If all the applicants are approved, taxpayers will be on the hook for more than the $107 million estimated for year one. As of June 1, the Iowa Department of Education has received 15,338 applications which is 1,270 over the Legislative Service Bureau’s estimates and the deadline for applying isn’t until June 30. The number of people applying for her vouchers has already surpassed expectations. Kim Reynolds and her legislative lemmings rammed private school vouchers into law wanting to grab attention, and without reasonable accountability. This one will burn Iowa financially because Gov.
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