Corey Turner
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928 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6d ago
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Yeah, it's meant a lot.
Iowa Republicans created those education savings accounts, again, ESAs, back in 2023.
And Chris McCarville
told me he remembered the day very clearly.
Now, any Iowa kid can get about $8,000 from the state to help pay for private school tuition.
And McCarville told me almost all of the families now at Xavier are using it this year, about 98%.
Yeah, the state's paying for them too, which is why it's costing now more than $300 million a year.
According to one estimate, more than half of students using the program
were already at a private school.
And Iowa's not alone in this.
I've seen this in other states' new choice programs.
Rob Sand is Iowa's state auditor, and he's a rare Democrat elected to statewide office in Iowa.
He's not a fan of this idea of paying private school students to keep doing what they were already doing.
That is dumb.
We should not be using tax dollars to subsidize behavior that would exist without it.
We're not making a difference.
We are literally wasting money when we give it to people to do a thing that they would be doing anyways.
That said, Aisha, I did talk to some public school parents who told me, look, these ESAs made a huge difference, and they opened the door to private school that was closed to them before.
Among those parents is Stephanie King.
A few years ago, King, who is not Catholic, sent her youngest to public school.
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