The Iowa Legislature is a couple weeks past the deadline to pass funding for K-12 public education, with schools eager to learn how much Supplemental State Aid they’ll receive for next year.

State law requires the legislature to pass public education funding within the first 30 days of the session, so that schools can certify their budgets by April 15th. However, there’s no official consequence for delaying the funding bill’s passage. State House District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen (R) shares his view on different funding proposals being debated, “In the House we had $108 million for the K-12 package, the governor proposed about $8 million less than that so she was at about $100 million and the Senate is even below the governor. I know we feel like we put out a reasonable and responsible proposal and it invests significant resources and it’s something that we know we can follow through on.”

Sorensen says the House would like to bring the Senate’s proposal at least up to Governor Kim Reynolds’ request. He adds that schools currently can plug in the Senate and House’s proposed numbers to estimate their budget with some certainty. You can hear more from Sorensen during Monday’s Let’s Talk Guthrie County program on air and at raccoonvalleyradio.com.