An Iowa lawmaker that pushed for Student First Scholarships recently took to social media to restate that claim.

District 24 Senator Jesse Green stated in a recently Facebook post, on his account, clarifying his stance on those scholarships that would allow parents to take public funding from a list of designated federally failing schools to an educational institution of their choice, by saying “I desire ESA’s or “vouchers” to be tied to poverty rate so that they are universal across the state and not just for Federally Failing Schools, but of course I’ll support whatever that will pass.”

Green then proceeded to repost an article that supports the Senate passing a bill related to Student First Scholarships and calls out the Iowa House for not passing the legislation as well. Green tells Raccoon Valley Radio his intention for re-posting the article was to give it additional exposure, claiming the author was being censored by Facebook. He shares his thoughts on the political divide between the House and the Senate.

“There’s a lot of tension in the capitol right now as far as what’s going to actually cross the finish line. I was definitely disheartened in the beginning of the session when it didn’t seem like the House had the votes or had the support needed to get the governor’s Students First Scholarships across the finish line. I was just shocked when this is part of the Republican platform.”

However, Senator Green took some criticism as part of the article he re-posted talked about a systemic indoctrination of Iowa’s public schools with students being taught to “hate their country.” The article goes on to say, “the public school system is doing all it can to produce future Leftists.” Green comments on that part of the article, saying it deals with critical race theory, which is being taught in a few public schools in Iowa. But he relents that it appears as though the article labels all schools are doing this same thing.

“I should’ve been a little more careful about reposting something like that. But at the end of the day, the 30,000 foot view, the main point that he was getting at in that article is school choice and that’s what grabbed my attention.”     

Green remains hopeful that a bill will pass this session that addresses Student First Scholarships.