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ESAs help families find best schools, education options
Education Savings Accounts can be essential to families finding the best educational paths for their children. Not everyone can afford a private school tuition, but thanks to Arizona law and ESAs anyone can.
Would you take away the ESA program from parents, or not
Families participating in Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program received a warm and welcome reassurance at the Senate Finance Committee hearing on SB 1395, a bill that would alleviate many of the administrative struggles ESA parents have faced in navigating the program’s rules.
We must keep the heat on voucher backers
So, the fight continues because those in power do not care. So we watch. We attend hearings. We fill committee rooms. We report. We post. We tweet. We expose. We write these letters. We keep pushing the truth against those that want to twist, ignore or deny the facts.
Bill strips Department of Education of voucher oversight
A Republican lawmaker wants the state to hire a private company to oversee and administer Arizona’s voucher program and wants State Treasurer Kimberly Yee, not the newly elected Democratic superintendent, to choose the vendor.
Candidates for top education office have concerns about charter schools
Charter schools, insufficient public school funding and Proposition 305 were some of the topics in the first debate in the race for state superintendent of public instruction.
Ducey talks Trump, education ahead of primary
As part of his re-election bid, Ducey sat down with the Arizona Capitol Times to discuss numerous issues, including education, Arizona’s economy, his re-election bid and the challenges he faces along the way to a second term.
Teachers swarm Capitol, demand 20 percent pay hike
Save Our Schools Arizona is not only gearing up for a possible referendum on whatever lawmakers may replace existing voucher expansion legislation with but also for a potential initiative to address public education funding shortfalls.
Senate approves voucher plan decried as ‘the end of public education in Arizona’
State senators voted Monday to do what foes have argued has been their agenda all along -- allow every one of the 1.1 million students in Arizona to attend private and parochial schools with tax dollars.
ESAs for all tribal students creates choice for underserved populations
More than 150 children on Indian reservations across Arizona were given the opportunity this year to leave their failing schools for better performing ones.
Empowerment Scholarship Accounts serving Arizona well
Just as a child needs a pediatrician, dentist, and in some cases, even a physical therapist for their health, so they also may need a tutor, educational therapist, and an online class for their education. Moreover, new learning experiences require flexible options to pay for these services.
Senators aim to increase eligibility for school-choice accounts
A political battle could be in the making, as two state senators have separate proposals that could make thousands more children eligible for a program that provides public money for students to attend private school.
Advocates will try again to expand school choice program
School-choice advocates are again going to try for more expansion of a program that provides public money for children to attend private schools, even after falling short in 2014 to pass a proposal to make most of Arizona’s school children eligible.
