{"id":1639630,"date":"2022-09-12T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639630"},"modified":"2022-09-12T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T23:20:05","slug":"private-school-grad-katie-hobbs-releases-anti-school-choice-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/private-school-grad-katie-hobbs-releases-anti-school-choice-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Private School Grad Katie Hobbs Releases Anti-School Choice Plan"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fprivate-school-grad-katie-hobbs-releases-anti-school-choice-plan%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=1639630&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--><p>Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/arizona\">Arizona<\/a> governor, released her education plan on Sunday, which doubles down on her opposition to school choice.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs, who is currently Arizona\u2019s secretary of state and herself a private school graduate, said her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/education\">education<\/a> plan for Arizona includes cracking down on the state\u2019s school voucher program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo often, Republicans have completely disregarded public opinion in an effort to defund our public schools. At every turn, they have moved to expand school vouchers without common-sense measures of accountability, with the clear intent to eventually do away with our local public schools,\u201d Hobbs said in her <a href=\"https:\/\/katiehobbs.org\/katie-hobbs-delivers-a-prepared-arizona-plan-to-bolster-the-states-education-system\/\">plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona <a href=\"https:\/\/azgovernor.gov\/governor\/news\/2022\/07\/governor-ducey-signs-most-expansive-school-choice-legislation-recent-memory\">expanded<\/a>\u00a0its school voucher program over the summer. Governor Doug Ducey (R-AZ) signed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azleg.gov\/BillStatus\/BillOverview\/77976\">bill<\/a> in July allowing every Arizona student to get a taxpayer-funded\u00a0Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) account to pay for their education at a private school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azed.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022\/08\/H.B.%202853%20FAQ.pdf\">about<\/a>\u00a0$6,500 per child for grades 1-12.<\/p>\n<p>In the first two weeks after the online portal for new ESA applications opened, the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azmirror.com\/2022\/09\/01\/private-school-students-flock-to-expanded-school-voucher-program\/\">received<\/a> around 6,800 new\u00a0applications for school vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs said that as governor, she would roll back the expansion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVouchers should not have been expanded to provide an unaccountable means of enriching private schools and defunding our local public schools,\u201d she said in her plan.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs also attacked Arizona Republicans, who she said \u201cpressed forward with their latest attack on our schools\u201d by passing\u00a0the universal expansion of school vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unaccountable spending of taxpayer dollars needs to change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile though, Hobbs also wants Arizona public schools to be able to spend more money.<\/p>\n<p>Her plan supports eliminating Arizona\u2019s spending limit on public schools, known as the aggregate expenditure limit (AEL), which caps the amount of money public schools can spend out of their budget.\u00a0Arizona\u2019s public schools are <a href=\"https:\/\/tucson.com\/news\/local\/education\/school-districts-call-on-arizona-legislature-to-lift-spending-limit\/article_e542b862-306b-11ed-a443-a3c0d99b8a84.html\">estimated<\/a> to spend $1.3 billion less this fiscal year with the spending cap.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs herself is a beneficiary of a private school education.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs graduated from Seton Catholic Preparatory, a private\u00a0Catholic high school in Chandler, Arizona in 1988.\u00a0Seton has proudly <a href=\"https:\/\/4.files.edl.io\/777c\/02\/07\/20\/182935-01c2dad9-46ad-4bd3-9986-918989df274a.pdf\">highlighted<\/a> Hobbs\u2019 attendance in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs herself\u00a0has said she had a positive experience at the school. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilbertsunnews.com\/news\/seton-catholic-high-celebrating-years-of-service\/article_3774994c-e6f6-11e9-9ced-737f09da9bae.html\">noted<\/a> in 2019 that Seton teachers encouraged her to look at things from different perspectives, like how to see the relevance in older\u00a0classic literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really felt like a family,\u201d Hobbs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilbertsunnews.com\/news\/seton-catholic-high-celebrating-years-of-service\/article_3774994c-e6f6-11e9-9ced-737f09da9bae.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cYou really had a chance to get to know the people that you went to school with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Support for school choice has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federationforchildren.org\/national-school-choice-poll-shows-67-of-voters-support-school-choice-2019\/\">increased<\/a> since before the pandemic as frustrated parents confronted school boards over a litany of issues including COVID restrictions and curriculum materials they deemed inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Other states are also working to expand school choice. Last month, a\u00a0school choice group in Michigan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michigan-school-choice-group-clears-major-hurdle-in-circumventing-whitmers-veto\">cleared<\/a> one of two major hurdles it needs to circumvent Governor Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s\u00a0(D-MI) veto of a school choice measure.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, Hobbs\u2019 campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-campaigns-government-and-politics-540ee7c3603d522c4e12c4e7083443b5\">announced<\/a> that she will not debate her opponent,\u00a0Republican Kari Lake after over a week of negotiations.\u00a0Hobbs had attempted to replace the debate with having the candidates do separate half-hour interviews with the moderator instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for Arizona governor, released her education plan on Sunday, which doubles down on her opposition to school choice. Hobbs, who is currently Arizona\u2019s secretary of state and herself a private school graduate, said her education plan for Arizona includes cracking down on the state\u2019s school voucher program. \u201cToo often, Republicans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1639632,"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-1639630","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\/1639630","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}