Ayesha Roscoe

But also, just because you don't have the best facilities doesn't mean that you don't have great teachers or what have you.

It's complicated.

Like, it's a complicated thing.

Well, I mean, that, you know, that is a plot twist.

That is out of left field.

Are there like any larger implications to that?

Or is this kind of like an isolated thing?

When we come back, we'll visit with a family that chose to leave their local public school for a private Catholic school now that the state is helping to foot the bill.

Stay with us.

We're back with the Sunday story, and we're talking with NPR's Corey Turner about school choice and specifically what's happening in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

So where are we going next?

That makes sense for a Catholic school.

Religion would be a big part of its mission.

How does Xavier pay for all of this?

And so what has this new private school choice program then meant for Xavier?

I would think that more people could go.

So what about the kids who were already enrolled in a private school last year and the year before whose families were already paying tuition?

They're also using this benefit?

Well, Corey, I want to ask you the same question that I asked about the charter schools.

Under the school choice program to get state dollars, do private schools have to accept all students?