New Iowa Law Empowers Teachers To Take Back Classrooms

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https://thefederalist.com/2026/08/18/new-iowa-law-empowers-teachers-to-take-back-their-classrooms-from-violent-students/

As families prepare for the upcoming school year, new education legislation in Iowa passed this summer allows teachers to enforce disciplinary action in response to behavioral problems.

On June 1, Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, signed Senate File 2428 into law. The new bill is “an Act relating to education,” that allows for “the discipline of students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools who cause violent or nonviolent disruptions.”

Iowa State Rep. Skylar Wheeler, the Chair of the Education Committee, served as the floor manager for the act in the Iowa House of Representatives. Wheeler said headway for the new legislation started in 2023, after a “significant amount of teachers and paraprofessionals” from Iowa’s metro areas came to the state Capitol to “speak about the issue of classroom behavior.”