Private School Tuition Applications Double Expectations

Applications for the state's new private-tuition voucher program are double what lawmakers anticipated. Critics of the plan say it will divert even more money than they anticipated away from Iowa's traditional public-school students. When lawmakers legalized Iowa's Education Savings Accounts, they anticipated about 14,000 families would apply for the scholarship, which makes more than $7,600 available for parents to pay for private school tuition. ...

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