{"id":1531432,"date":"2022-06-28T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531432"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:19:48","slug":"arizona-opens-up-school-choice-to-all-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-opens-up-school-choice-to-all-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Opens Up School Choice to All Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-opens-up-school-choice-to-all-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">State bill is &#8216;the most robust expansion of educational freedom in the nation,&#8217; says think tank<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tStudents at the private Dalton School in 2014 \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/elizabeth-troutman\/\" title=\"Posts by Elizabeth Troutman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Elizabeth Troutman<\/a> \u2022 June 28, 2022 4:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Arizona will enact the nation&#8217;s most expansive school voucher bill, allowing all parents to decide where their children will attend school.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which allows Arizona families to take their children out of public school and puts public funds into Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, also known as education savings accounts (ESAs), that families can use for homeschooling or private-school tuition, last week passed the state House and Senate. Governor Doug Ducey (R.) has said he will sign the bill, which will expand the number of students who can use savings accounts from 10,000 to more than 1 million. As the program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azed.gov\/esa\/eligibility-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stands now<\/a>, only students who are disabled, in failing schools, or in military families can access the savings accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This legislation is the most robust expansion of educational freedom in the nation,&#8221; Goldwater Institute director of education policy Matt Beienburg told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;It guarantees every Arizona student, whether they are coming from public school, private school, or homeschooling, the opportunity to join the ESA program and receive their share of state funding to pursue any educational opportunity that best needs their needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed the Arizona Legislature during the same week that the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/golden-ticket-supreme-court-extends-vouchers-to-religious-schools\/\">extended<\/a> school-choice eligibility nationwide by prohibiting states from discriminating against religious institutions in school-voucher programs.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona families in the ESA program will receive more than $6,500 per year for their children for private school, homeschooling, or other educational services. The program does not drain money from public schools, however, a Goldwater Institute analysis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldwaterinstitute.org\/arizona-legislature-passes-goldwaters-esa-expansion-to-empower-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a public-school system usually gets back around $600 when a student leaves in favor of an ESA,\u00a0increasing per-pupil funding, according to the Goldwater Institute analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona in 2011 became the first state to enact education savings accounts. Seven other states now have similar voucher programs.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 1.2 million students have left the public-school system since COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures began, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.returntolearntracker.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the American Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus State bill is &#8216;the most robust expansion of educational freedom in the nation,&#8217; says think tank  Students at the private Dalton School in 2014 \/ Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}