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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are using this money purely for enrichment and just so you can, please consider forfeiting the funds so that those of us who really need it get a chance. I'm so angry at my neighbor who is like "oh yeah, my kid wants to do fun outschool classes this summer instead of camp, so we'll use this money for that" when my child failed his math SOL and needs intensive math remediation that we now have to pay for out of pocket.[/quote]

Blame Youngkin. Not other parents. His VDOE set it up this way.

It's free money. Of course people are lining up for it whether they need it or not. Even if some parents will forfeit it in favor of kids who need it more, many others won't

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+ 1 DS and I are both in education and learned about this program early on. It was clear from the program announcement that funding was going to run out quickly. It only covered 20,000 $1500 grants, and that doesn’t even cover every student in APS. I don’t agree with the way it was structured (I think low HHI kids should’ve had priority). But, I’m not a Republican, and this strikes me as a quintessentially Republican approach.

Don’t blame the families who signed up quickly for free money. We applied early and were quickly approved. We are going to work within the rules of the program, and I’m not going to apologize for using grants we applied for and received. [/quote]

It’s only 20,000 grants? Where did you see that?[/quote]

The VDOE program announcement stated there was $30 million available for this program. Divide that by $1500, and that’s 20,000. It actually could be fewer grants than that, depending on how many $3000 grants were awarded to low-income households.

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/parents-students/for-parents/k-12-learning-acceleration-grants[/quote]

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