OPINION: 'The Arizona Legislature should see through this attempt to turn the state’s children into second-class citizens, and reject the governor’s proposals,' write Christy Narsi, chairwoman of Independent Women's Network AZ Chapter, and Mary Vought, ...
After months of lockdowns and countless learning loss due to the COVID pandemic, will Arizona families take another step backward when it comes to providing children a quality education? That sad fate could happen if the state’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, gets her way.
More than a decade ago, Arizona led the way in creating the nation’s first education savings account program. For the uninitiated, ESAs give parents a portion of the funding that the state would have spent on their child’s public education. The money gets placed into an account that families can use on qualified educational expenses, ranging from things like books for homeschooling to private school tuition, extra one-on-one tutoring, and more.
In addition to allowing families to choose the best educational option or options for their children, ESAs also save taxpayer funds, making Hobbs’ argument that last year’s ESA expansion will “cost” Arizona $1.5 billion completely untrue. In Arizona, the state’s contribution to a family’s ESA equals 90% of state spending on the child’s education.
In Arizona, Hobbs’ argument that school choice “costs” taxpayers comes with a particularly noteworthy level of irony. In the same budget in which Hobbs proposed gutting the ESA program, she also asked the Legislature to appropriate $40 million to fund an expansion of subsidized college for undocumented immigrants.
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