UNI Legislative Update
The Office of Governmental Relations provides legislative updates to the campus community through online communication and bimonthly campus presentations. These updates will inform faculty, staff and students of hot topics facing the legislature and legislative actions affecting UNI and the Regents institutions.
April 2, 2008
RDDD School passes the House, sent to Gov. Culver
The House just passed the state of Iowa research development demonstration and dissemination school bill that passed the Senate last week.
As mentioned earlier, the bill charges UNI President Ben Allen and the Director of the Department of Education, Judy Jeffrey, to form committees to develop plans to expand the role of Price Laboratory School on UNI's campus into the state of Iowa's RDDD School. The two committees will center on funding and implementation.
Members of the committees will consist of faculty from both UNI and Price Lab along with Department of Education staff. Additionally, the finance and funding committee will be investigating whether or not Price Lab needs to be renovated in order to house RDDD School.
The bill, having received Constitutional majority in both chambers of the legislature, is now sent to the Governor for his signature.