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Arizona School Choice Program Comes Under Bureaucratic Attack

By Thomas A. Smith

Arizona’s governor, Democrat Katie Hobbs, a nonentity who won because Republicans ran a Trump sycophant instead of a viable candidate, hates school choice. So does Attorney General Kris Mayes, who won by 280 votes against another Trump acolyte. Both officials have targeted Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA), a state program that lets students use a portion of the funding allocated for education in public schools to pay instead for private school tuition or homeschooling costs. Hampered by the popularity of the program among Arizonans, Hobbs, Mayes, and their allies pursue a strategy of death by bureaucracy. Families are fighting back in court.

via reason.com