Recently, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed the funding increase for public schools for next year with the State Supplemental Aid by 3%.

Iowa Senator for District 12 Amy Sinclair is glad that legislators were able to pass the 3% increase, though there are some who question if it’s enough with the rise in inflation. She tells Raccoon Valley Radio why the increase stopped where it did, and didn’t go higher.

“But we can’t control federal spending, which has jacked inflation up to over 8%. But we have to be mindful of the fact that all of those increases compound annually. So next year, when we increase it again, we’re building off of that additional 3%, which we have to be mindful of the state’s budget. So balancing that fine line between keeping the state’s budget responsible and achievable versus an inflation that’s been caused by the federal government spending money like drunken sailors. We can’t control that part of it, so we have to control our end.”

Sinclair adds that the Senate decided to go with the 3% increase, after using Governor Reynolds’s 2.5% proposal as a base. She says that they wanted to recognize that inflation was an issue, and bump up some of the help they’d be giving.