Studies show that school choice voucher programs save states money. Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account program, in particular, is expected to save the state about $500 million in education expenses this year while costing only $377 million. Statewide public school enrollment has declined by…
Studies show that school choice voucher programs save states money. Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account program, in particular, is expected to save the state about $500 million in education expenses this year while costing only $377 million. Statewide public school enrollment has declined by 31,000 since the ESA program began and is currently 70,000 below budget projections, as Corey DeAngelis and Jason Bedrick pointed out the other day in the Wall Street Journal.Gov.
OK, fine. I'm no expert in Arizona's school-funding formula, but a proper fix to this problem — and a bipartisan fix, if it is indeed a real problem and some consensus can be reached — would seem to be to change how the funding formula works for those districts, not to abolish a program that can unburden the state from an extremely expensive task that it performs very poorly. As both New Orleans and Washington, D.C.
If too many students from affluent school districts are taking ESA money in Arizona, then the state government should act now and hire"navigators," as they were called in the old Obamacare program, to help families in poorer and worse-performing districts take advantage of ESAs as well.
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