Arizona was the first state to enact an Empowerment ... But college entrance exams reveal a key weakness in school choice policy: if every high school student is ultimately held to the standard ...

Right now, dozens of states and Washington, D.C. offer some type of school choice program. Arizona became the first state to adopt universal school choice in 2022 and several Republican-states ...

After years of bashing the Education Department, conservatives may finally have the political power and momentum to eliminate ...

the reality is that most educational choice programs are designed with robust protections to safeguard educational autonomy. For example, Arizona's ESA legislation explicitly states that a school ...

DiMarco: Analysis of 41 State of the State addresses finds a focus on K-12 funding and early & higher ed, but not much on ...

School choice has seen rapid growth nationally since 2020, but Arizona was at the forefront of this movement. Despite the success of programs ...

Opponents of education choice have tried repeatedly to repeal or curtail the initiative. The anti-school-choice group Save Our Schools Arizona tried to put the universal ESA expansion on the ballot ...