As a W-SR school board member and candidate for Iowa House District 57, I am compelled to respond to some of the misleading claims made by Pat Grassley in his recent article “Big wins in House File 2612”. Supplemental State Aid, or SSA, is the amount the state legislature will allow the education cost of a pupil to grow from one year to the next. Any change to the SSA rate is decided every year and theoretically should closely follow inflation, but lately this has not been the case.