Unfortunately financial calculators show with the current inflation figures and interest rates, savings of $100 per month in a child’s 529 plan utilizing an age-based strategy from birth to college-age may not amass enough even to pay for the first year’s expenses.
Am I saving enough for my kids’ college? | BrightScope
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Of course the answer is “no, you are not saving enough,” because it’s impossible to save a billion dollars (projected cost of our daughter’s tuition) over 18 years.
George Skelton: Let’s make textbooks affordable. Making textbooks truly affordable, or even available free, is the least we can do for California’s beleaguered college and university students. And the state would ultimately benefit.
State Senate leader Darrell Steinberg plans to introduce legislation aimed at slashing the price of textbooks to about $20.
Smart. I hope this idea gains traction, and I’m curious to see how the textbook cabal organizes to quash it. The market cannot bear insanely priced textbooks for much longer.
…on May 21, 2008, the SDEA Representative Council (a body of some 200 elected leaders of SDEA) approved a proposal to charge an “agency fee” (or “fair share fee”) for all Visiting Teachers protected by the SDEA Collective Negotiations Agreement with SDUSD who do not choose to become dues-paying union members.
Translation: San Diego teacher union leaders voted to extract fees from substitute teachers who are not protected in any way by the union, whether they choose to join the union or not. It is not clear if anyone representing substitute teachers was eligible to vote.
As education budgets are cut in California, schools are forced to rely on more “support” or “long term substitute” teachers instead of hiring new staff with contracts or benefits. Because of this rule, these non-union support teachers are forced to financially support an organization that is working to keep them from getting teaching contracts with benefits or protection.
This discourages non-union teachers to work at all and cuts off the lifeblood of our children’s educational system: new, ambitious, and qualified teachers. It’s criminal.
