{"id":1550599,"date":"2022-07-12T12:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1550599"},"modified":"2022-07-12T12:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:19:45","slug":"arizona-students-can-attend-school-of-their-choice-after-governor-signs-historic-voucher-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-students-can-attend-school-of-their-choice-after-governor-signs-historic-voucher-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Students Can Attend School of Their Choice After Governor Signs Historic Voucher Bill"},"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\">28<\/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-students-can-attend-school-of-their-choice-after-governor-signs-historic-voucher-bill%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=1550599&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><\/div>\n<p>Arizona governor Doug Ducey (R.) signed the nation\u2019s most expansive school voucher bill last week, ensuring all students in the Grand Canyon State can attend the school of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/arizona-opens-up-school-choice-to-all-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill<\/a>, which creates scholarship accounts for Arizona families to redirect funds from their child\u2019s public school education toward private school tuition or homeschooling, passed the House and Senate at the end of June. Ducey\u2019s signature made Arizona the first state in America to offer universal school choice.<\/p>\n<p>Both state and federal school choice initiatives have met opposition from teachers\u2019 unions who call such initiatives schemes to defund public school programs. President Joe Biden, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/top-labor-group-gifts-biden-with-friendly-union-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received more money from teachers&#8217; unions<\/a> than any other candidate in 2020, opposes school choice, though he sent his own children to private school. House Republicans introduced two bills this June to establish a federal school choice program by enacting a $10 billion tax credit program to fund education scholarships, arguing the program widens opportunities for students.<\/p>\n<p>Severely economically disadvantaged communities in Arizona are the primary users of the scholarship accounts. The accounts are most popular in the state\u2019s 10 most disadvantaged school districts, the Goldwater Institute, a conservative public policy research and litigation group, found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldwaterinstitute.org\/policy-report\/esas-help-low-income-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2019 report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arizona has been a national leader in school choice for decades, and this new legislation will further throw open the doors of educational opportunity for all students,&#8221; Goldwater Institute director of education policy Matt Beienburg told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;This legislation takes what parent advocates have only dreamed of and makes it a reality: putting families, not bureaucrats, in control of our children\u2019s education dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s school choice victory came <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/education-legislature-west-virginia-state-45bf1976e7d35c46a9cc4464d4c1d749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a day after<\/a> a West Virginia circuit court judge struck down the Mountain State\u2019s voucher program, which would have allowed public school families to use state education funds for private school, homeschooling, or other educational services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona governor Doug Ducey (R.) signed the nation\u2019s most expansive school voucher bill last week, ensuring all students in the Grand Canyon State can attend the school of their choice.<\/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-1550599","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\/1550599","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=1550599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550599\/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=1550599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}