School choice legislation hit the floor of the Texas Senate on Wednesday. SB 2 would create what is called an Education Savings Account.| FOX 7 Austin
House Speaker Dustin Burrows said he expects both school choice bills to make it out of a House committee and onto the House floor for a vote early next week.| FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth
Phoenix—On Monday, Dec. 2, news broke that an out-of-state couple were indicted for defrauding the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) universal voucher program, by submitting applications for 50 children, 43 of whom do not exist, according to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.| Grand Canyon Institute
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.| ProPublica
The nonpartisan Grand Canyon Institute (GCI) recently released a shocking new report showing that the projected net cost of Arizona’s universal ESA voucher program is equal to at least half of the state’s budget deficit this year — and about two-thirds of next year’s projected deficit. Arizona faces an estimated $1.3 billion budget deficit in both those years combined, with an additional $500 million shortfall that must be covered by this year’s budget (which must be passed by June...| Save Our Schools Arizona Network