Iowa school voucher scam update: Private schools raising tuition up to 40%. Special ed services to public schools will have a 30 million dollar cut
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I agree that the fact that publics do is an important point here inasmuch as you want privates to be subject to the same standards (all fair, just as it is implicit in the point suggested earlier in my post about 340b drug pricing), but they "do" without regard to whether the privates do.
No; I do not care if they have adhere to the same standards. HOWEVER, if $0.01 of public money goes to private schools, then they MUST adhere to the same standards.
This is pretty much spot on. I have skin in the game on both sides of this (wife was a public school teacher, kids go to a Catholic school). Both have their advantages and disadvantages. If you asked most private schools to take on all the special needs that the public schools take, they’d drown. There are kids in our school who go to a nearby public school for a few hours each day to get the support they require that the private school isn’t equipped for.
Private school is a choice. We shouldn’t be tearing down our public schools to prop up the private schools. Strong public schools are vital to a prosperous community.
Well, it sounded like he was making a factual statement, which would be currently wrong and not in the law.
If nothing else, this should absolutely not be a zero sum game, even if one side will always argue that any money spent on the other makes it one. Public schools should be appropriately resourced (whatever that means), period. If you want to provide resources for kids to explore a private option, I'm fine with that too, but if it were me, that would be tied to some sort of financial need standard and/or contingent on the local district (non)performance issues.
that can become a very blurry line, very quickly, on a message board.
Just watch how that goes when Scotus issues the SFA decisions later this term.
And with the tuition increases. Private schools are restricting the students with the biggest need from getting in. Directly in conflict of the purpose of the system being set up.
As i've stated somewhere in here months ago, that is not necessarily a simple linear thing, any more than it is at any ivy league university, except that the ivies have more than enough money to price discriminate in a way that enables them to just admit who they want.
Most privates really don't have that luxury. (He says, having just read an email this weekend from son's school celebrating the conclusion of its bicentennial fundraising campaign which raised $80M, but hey, jesuits gonna jesuit)
The best way would have been a lottery system that the state funds. U only have so many slots for those kids. If u don't win one of those spots. U still have the choice to go to private just not on tax payers dime.
If the student has already been going to private school the public school is not having any money taken from them.
You can cry all you want about the school vouchers but they are here to stay.
And our nation and Constitution become a little more watered down….as America races for the bottom.
Unless the state expanded the funds available, they have expanded the students eligible for funding and thus lowered the dollars per student funding.
This is what they have done in Indiana with the most recent biennium budget. They increased school funding by $1.2 billion. About half of that went to vouchers and charter schools. That enrollment is about 7% of the total number of kids enrolled in school in Indiana. All estimates show there will be a small increase in private school enrollment but 97.5% of private school kids will now qualify for a voucher.
Diverting money to that scheme directly impacts public schools who educate 93% of kids in Indiana.
And this is the ultimate goal for all voucher programs.
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You are an idiot.
SEP getting a new $3 million softball complex. With all the public schools complaining about vouchers taking money from them, they don’t seem to have a problem blowing any on things like this.
Yep. Private schools still don’t get this critical advantage that public schools do.
“Solon voters approved a $25.5 million bond measure Tuesday night.
This will expand the intermediate school, update Lakeview Elementary, create a transportation facility, construct a new administrative building, build a new multi-purpose indoor activity facility, and get new turf at Spartan Stadium. The turf now is 12 years old.”
And Solon will be better than 99% of the private schools in Iowa.
And you're definitely a product of the public school system.
But do so with over-sight from its citizens. School board elections open to ALL residents of tge community and all they have to do is pass public referendums to raise money for new buildings.
The law was poorly crafted, not vetted, and failed to pass the last legislative session. Kimmie went out and put a bullet into the heads of four of her own party members in primaries to get it passed.
It’s a cluster. There is next to zero accounting for the money.
A quick Google search shows Regina is raising tuition 44% for in parish families. Spectacular grift by Kim.
This is the same guy who said that public schools get per pupil finding for resident students attending a private school.
He'll just be wrong again and then laugh react to everything rather than admit it.
I was on my phone last night and do not see the same link...honestly. This one says 10% increase, so yes, they are doing what we said they would do. If I can find the other one somewhere I will link it.
Kim Reynolds’ Private School Voucher Plan Led To Tuition Hikes
The cost of attending a private K-12 school in Iowa will go up for many families in the 2023-24 school year even after Iowa Republicans at Gov. Kim Reynolds'
iowastartingline.com
There goes more tax dollars. Well done, Iowa Republicans. Stop falling for grifters' bullcrap!
Oh, so they haven't announced the 2023-24 tuition raise, yet? I was talking to a Regina MILF at the gym this morning and she said they haven't been told how much their tuition is going up, but expect to find out soon. Or, are you playing some other semantics game?
