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Vavra enrolled her daughter Alex in Summit Schools in Cedar Rapids and so far she’s loving it. “Every day she comes home and she has a new best friend. Cracks me up,” Vavra said.
Vavra says since being at Summit, her daughter is no longer falling behind. She also gets additional help from a tutor, which is expensive. “Right now, like, our tutoring is about $6,000 annually,” Vavra said.
When the school voucher bill, or Students First Act, passed Vavra says she thought her daughter would finally get the help she needs. “I kind of felt like okay we have some hope for her because we can do the tutoring, we can pay for the tutoring ourselves, and then with the ESA we can also afford to send her to Summit,” Vavra said.
For the 2023-2024 school year, tuition before vouchers or any other discounts at Summit is $8,090. In the 2024-2025 school year, the cost will be $14,350. The state allocates $7,598 per student in the ESA voucher program.
Currently, Vavra pays $492 for tuition after the voucher kicks in. Next year, she’ll have to pay $6,715 after it kicks in. “She still needs tutoring and so it is a question of how now are we going to afford both of these things? I don’t want to pull her out of this school,” Vavra said.
Vavra says she’ll have to make some tough choices to afford both due to the increase in tuition and the cost of the tutor. “I’m thinking maybe I could take some money out of our retirement account to do both. That’s the only thing that I have come up with,” Vavra said.
There are no caps on tuition increases in the law. State Auditor Rob Sand says he has additional concerns about a lack of oversight. “That there are going to be no requirement for audit, no requirement for public records, no requirement for public meetings and just no transparency as to how that money is actually getting used,” Sand said.
This is 100% my experience, every young left person I engage with on this
doesn't know anything about about the conflict beyond vibes, slogans and memes.
I don't care enough to engage. I have no point other than getting my curiosity fulfilled.
Do you take those moments with the young folks to teach them some portions of truth about the conflict? Or point them in a direction where they could and should (if they truly want to have feelings on the matter) learn more?
I think they included his non-european race to remove doubt about potential bias and included him being an engineer because you'd assume someone working to become that understands the importance of research and fact finding prior to taking a stance on something.Right? Seems like while he was initially ignorant, he was more than willing to adjust his thinking when presented with facts. I’d much rather have that than the Dunning Kruger morass of other demographics.
Also, I struggle to understand what relevance there is to “Latino Engineer”
Right? Seems like while he was initially ignorant, he was more than willing to adjust his thinking when presented with facts. I’d much rather have that than the Dunning Kruger morass of other demographics.
Also, I struggle to understand what relevance there is to “Latino Engineer”
3rd partyif elections were held today and it were trump vs biden, who would you “support”?
for the record, i would 100% “support” joe biden.
3rd party