Irefuse to look at my students as dollar signs or to compete with my colleagues to have the best “raw material” to produce the highest results. Guest columnist

Schuyler Snakenberg is a secondary social studies teacher with 15 years of experience. He is married with two children and lives in a small town in southeast Iowa.

Thomas Jefferson once said, “I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for diffusion of knowledge among the people. (No) other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.”

In other words, education is essential to a successful democracy. It cannot only be reserved for those who have the most financial resources. That defeats the core concept of democracy. The Iowa DOGE task force push for performance-based pay

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