The Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Program (ESA) private and home school voucher program is becoming quite the financial nest egg as a welfare program for the wealthy, home school families looking to fleece the system and a source of seed money for fraudsters inside and outside the Grand Canyon State. Today, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office … Read more
School vouchers in Arizona are funneling cash to rich kids already in private “Christian” schools and paying for their Ivy League college tuition. Riddled with fraud and waste, the voucher program is bleeding $714 million from the state and causing public schools to close. Voucher recipients have wasted taxpayer money on horseback lessons, televisions, home … Read more
This article, written by Beth Lewis, Director of Save Our Schools Arizona and Nicky Indicavitch, Outreach Director of Save Our Schools Arizona, originally appeared in AZ Mirror on November 29, 2024. Once again, Arizona voters showed overwhelming support for local public schools in the 2024 election. School boards across the state saw many pro-public education … Read more
To combat streams of disinformation and false propaganda from neighboring Russia, the education system in Finland is providing class time for children in their schools to learn how to tell the difference between fake news from unreliable sources and real reporting from credible ones. It should also be noted that Finnish children, unlike their counterparts … Read more
Since the Ducey Gubernatorial era that saw the expansion of the Empowerment Scholarship Program to universal access, there have been repeated reports by credible news organizations of widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in the system. Of course the original promise by the advocates of this expansion, that poor families could use the scholarship program to … Read more