Corey Turner
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928 appearances
95 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6d ago
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The Quez Veras told me Erica also needs extra support at school, but her teachers were often too busy managing behavior to give it.
I even asked Erica about this when we were in the car with Oscar.
Was that pretty common?
Now, I spoke with several charter school families who all told me pretty similar stories.
So I looked at the data.
Last year, the Cedar Rapids School District recorded nearly 4,000 incidents that led to a suspension or expulsion.
And this is in a district that serves around 14,000 kids.
That's a lot of disruption, considering this level of punishment is supposed to be reserved for the most severe behavior.
I asked the district about this, too, and they said a couple things, that they are more accurately recording incidents now that might not have been recorded in previous years.
and that after COVID, they did see a rise in intense behavior that led to more safety issues and more suspensions.
Adam Quezvera told me he still supports the mission of public education.
Yes.
Prep is not selective.
If more kids apply than they have slots, they have to use a lottery, which is why the student body at Prep mirrors pretty closely the public schools.
It really depends on who you ask, Aisha.
So the families I talk with say, no, it's good, it's fair, and it's diverse, and it's free.
But the district told me, again, the students and funding they're losing to schools like Cedar Rapids Prep are part of the reason they're now having to consolidate and close traditional neighborhood schools.
This is where the plot thickens.
It turns out as a charter school, Cedar Rapids Prep is largely funded for now by a billionaire philanthropist, Joe Ricketts, who founded TD Ameritrade.
And so in the free market that Iowa Republicans have tried to create in Cedar Rapids, the traditional public schools have to compete with PrEP, even though they don't have Ricketts deep pockets.
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