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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a private school. They can charge whatever they want. Only the people who can’t afford it are complaining about the cost. [/quote]

Not complaining at all. The US legal system allows consumers to contest abusive practices by corporations. Nothing outrageous about that. Just curious if there was something similar in DC. In Arizona has being proposed. Nothing crazy. [/quote]

Looking to Arizona for DC private school policy is apples to oranges. The reason why a bill has been proposed in AZ to limit tuition increases in private schools is because AZ has a fairly rare voucher system (they call it ESA) that gives thousands of dollars to families who request it to pay for private school.

The problem is that once lawmakers in AZ dropped limits for the vouchers and allowed anyone to get the funds, including people who were already paying for private school without the ESA voucher funds, some private schools raised tuition by more than usual.

This isn’t a case of AZ state legislators having a soft spot for private school parents and looking to cap tuition costs because it’s just too expensive. It’s because, in AZ, some schools said “oh, families are now getting $8,000 on average from the state to pay for tuition. Well, they could afford the price before they got these funds so let’s raise tuition by $8,000”. [/quote]

Kind of like what colleges and universities all over this country did with federal student loans.  [/quote]

Again. The issue might be lack of competition in the sense that there is not a robust and well funded public system in place that would force private schools and colleges to offer good value for money. [/quote]

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