Charges Coming For Kindergarten, School Bus Service in Loudoun (VA)?
http://www.leesburgtoday.com/news/charges-coming-for-kindergarten-school-bus-service-in-loudoun/article_ddac6740-6ab4-11e4-833d-834bccdfcc11.html
The Loudoun County School Board will be asking state legislators to clear the way for them to charge for full-day kindergarten and student transportation....
Public schools in Virginia are not required to provide either full-day kindergarten or bus service, but if they do provide them, they must it for free. Thats illogical, said Chairman Eric Hornberger (Ashburn) and Bill Fox (Leesburg), the two most vocal proponents of the change....
Loudoun is one of only four Virginia school districts that does not offer a full-day program to all its students, and the only one in a major metropolitan area. Most of the school systems elementary schools do not have the classroom space to expand its kindergarten programs, and it will cost an estimated $52 million to build kindergarten classrooms at 46 elementary schools....
On a 6-3 vote, the board approved a request that school boards be allowed to charge tuition, up to half the locally funded portion of the districts average cost-per-pupilwhich equates to about $4,000for non-at-risk students participating in full-day kindergarten.
Come on. I know Loudoun (where Dulles Airport is) is redder than the rest of NoVA, but