Last week, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced a proposed increase to State Supplemental Aid.

Iowa Senator for District 12 Amy Sinclair tells Raccoon Valley Radio that the proposed 2.5 percent increase would also include a 0.5 percent increase to the Teacher’s Salary Supplement, which would move the increase to a flat three percent overall. She talks about the trickle down effect for funding, starting with the federal government.

“To have it based on where inflation is, because we’re just printing money like drunken sailors. Actually, that’s an insult to drunken sailors. We are spending money in ways that are not sustainable at the federal level, and it’s resulting in inflation that impacts all of us out here in the cheap seats. And so to say that we need to have a conversation about that, I think is valid.”

Sinclair mentions she’s not sure where the conversation on the proposed increase will go, whether the increase is too much or too little, but she expects those discussions to continue in the Senate Education Committee.