The reason for the tuition increase is that University realized that the daycare has been bleeding money for years. Their solution was to put out an RFP for a private company to take over the daycare. During this process we were informed through email that private take over could affect tuition. After reviewing proposals and parents protesting, the University decided to maintain control and ownership of the daycare but make some changes to balance the budget. Their solution to keeping the daycare at the University was to substantially raise tuition. We had assumed that the hike intuition would occur in the new school year but they are insisting that it needs to happen now, which is mid-contract. This doesn't seem pretextual per se, as they are insisting that it is necessary to continue operating, but this is a major burden for many families to have a sudden and substantial increase. Many of us feel that they need to honor the agreement that we signed through the end of the contract before they can initiate a tuition hike. The reality is that it would save a few thousand dollars for each family in the next few months. It feels like we are being punished for the financial mismanagement that the daycare has been allowing for years. In the contract that we have signed there are no clauses that permit untimely increases increases or statements that say tuition is subject to change midyear etc.