Arizona opens the final frontier of school choice

Published June 28, 2022 12:00am ET



In search of educational freedom? Go west, young families. Unless you live in California, in which case, head a little east to Arizona.

Last week, the Arizona Legislature passed the most expansive school choice initiative in America: the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account program. ESAs are the purest version of school choice. Whereas charter school policies allow for a more diverse array of public schools to flourish, and voucher systems enable public money to flow to private schools, ESAs put purchasing power directly into the hands of parents.

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