Newton Schools taking families to court
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The siloed funding part will never change, so there's no point in arguing about it.
I wish there was more flexibility, however. It's gotten better over the last few years but instead of focusing on issues like that that would greatly help districts and families, they're gutting the AEAs and giving away money to rich private school kids.
Unfortunately, that probably won't change until all of Kimmy's comrades are voted out. It's a sad state we are in as a state at the moment.
These are education laws. With our current leadership, those laws changing for the better will never happen.
Yet we are to very simply educate these children as easily as kids who aren’t in poverty. Thanks Kim for taking money away from these kids and handing it to the well to do.
Why didn't the Democrats change the laws when they controlled all three chambers?
Why is it the Dems job to be in charge of changing things for the better. You’d think both parties bare responsibility for that.
I meant that with Kim and the Rs in control, they certainly won't be changing for the better as evidenced by the last few legislative sessions.
I agree. I was responding to boji who placed blame on Republicans.
Gotcha, honestly both parties at the State level spend too much time on things they shouldn’t be into. The focus should be on education, infrastructure,, etc etc. Anything else to me at least seems to be a distraction from the core mission.
How many students could we feed with the money we've sent to Ukraine or put into climate change?
Trump tax cuts for the rich. Corporate tax rate being slashed.
Which district owns this multi-million dollar stadium?
Your ignorance on this continues (as it does with many subjects).
I assume your position applies to private schools as well - their funding should be pooled as well. And any new capital expenditures must be postponed until all children are supplied with free school lunch. That would be the case if you had any consistency in your arguments but you don't.
Like using tax money to gift to private schools? Makes no sense at all.
The Legislature needs to listen to experts and govern accordingly. Not rewrite the Constitution. This past year has been a really poor job of legislative leadership.
That is what I was thinking. Not in my lifetime.
It takes years to understand school funding. Only idiots make blanket statements like it is easy to fix. It is a myriad of federal, state, and local funds.
Face it Tom. The left has their own issues with priorities.
Isn’t there federal funding for districts in a high poverty rate. Where all kids get free meals? Did Iowa opt out of this?
Yep, its like people are taking political positions over kids. You don't always have to be "Right". Just have some compassion.
Terrace Hill wants the public schools to suffer to justify funding the ESA.
It really is that simple.
No there is funding for full year. We’ve never had to pay for meals in Milwaukee school district because of it. I remember them opting out of summer. But wasn’t sure if that was rest of year or how the program worked exactly.
Holy shit I'm agreeing with you. Armageddon is close at hand.
No. It provides a stipend for families to buy food.
SUN Bucks (Summer EBT) is a new grocery benefit available across most of the U.S. Families with eligible school-aged children can get $120 per child to buy groceries during the summer. SUN Bucks may have a different name depending on your location.
That's a different program.
Is this what you are talking about?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week lowered the threshold for schools to qualify for free meals in a program called the Community Eligibility Provision. The districts that now qualify could choose to offer free meals, much as they did at the height of the pandemic.
The program allows school districts in high-need areas, where many students live in poverty, to give all students free breakfast and lunch. This week, the USDA changed the qualification threshold from 40% to 25% of students who are participating in needs-based federal programs, which the department says will give 3,000 more school districts the opportunity to offer free meals to all students.
Now, qualifying districts are looking at their finances to see if they can afford to sign up for the program. In the St. James school district in Missouri, Superintendent Tim Webster said the federal reimbursement rate for meals has to be weighed against the numbers of students who qualify and even school meal debt, which increased as students returned to the paid system.
“We're very thankful that the USDA would drop that threshold, because that's a great thing for our students,” Webster said. “But at the same time, we have to make sure that it financially makes sense for the district to still not lose money.”
In the end, many districts will likely still have to say no to the program, and the finances are even harder for the districts that are newly qualified, because the federal reimbursement rate is tied to the number of high-need students the district educates. Even when districts qualified at the higher threshold, just over 60% of eligible school districts chose to participate in the program in both Missouri and Illinois, according to the Food Research and Action Council.
More schools can now offer free meals after federal policy change, but cost is still a burden
A change in USDA policy will make it easier for schools to offer free meals to all students, but they will still have to pay for part of the cost.
www.iowapublicradio.org
All I know is that kids shouldn't suffer because of their parents' politics
A stipend for families to be able to make their own decisions? Sounds like a great idea.
Low income people, and their decisions are restricted. But otherwise your foolishness still makes little sense.
