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Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)

Teachers and School Forces to Put ESA Reform on the November Ballot

February 16, 2026February 9, 2026 by David Gordon

With Arizona Legislative Republicans okay with rampant waste, fraud, abuse, and indoctrination in the billion-dollar a year publicly funded with working and middle class taxpayers money Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) Welfare/Scam for the Wealthy Private School Voucher Program, the Arizona Education Association (AEA) and Save Our Schools Arizona have banded together to gather enough signatures … Read more

De Los Santos and Gutierrez React to the Latest Indictment of ESA Fraud from Out of State

October 4, 2025 by David Gordon

On October 2, 2025, The Arizona Attorney Generals office headed by Kris Mayes announced the indictment of Florida resident Adam Jones “for Theft and Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices,” where he is accused of creating fictitious children and defrauding the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Account Program of between $4,000 and $25,000 from December, 2022 to … Read more

(UPDATED) 12 News Craig Harris Exposes More Issues with Arizona’s Welfare for the Rich ESA-Private School Voucher Program Scam

August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 by David Gordon

A man on a mission, Phoenix Based NBC 12 News Reporter Craig Harris, in the tradition of the muckrakers at the turn of the last century, has spent the last several months broadcasting to viewers the many troubling issues with the Arizona’s one billion dollar Empowerment Scholarship Program (ESA)-Private School Voucher-Welfare for the Rich Program. … Read more

The Republican Answer to ESA Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Put it in the State Constitution and Let’s Deregulate Charter Schools While We’re at it.

June 19, 2025 by David Gordon

Another school year. Another $20,000,000 in free luxury expenses for private after school extracurricular activities that many of Arizona’s wealthiest, the people who do not need the money, legally fleece from the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Account appropriations that working and middle class taxpayers put into state coffers. Additional reporting from Craig Harris has … Read more

Someone Should Ask Kimberly Yee if Purchasing an AK47 for a Seven Year Old Would be a Legitimate Expense for Arizona’s ESA Program

June 4, 2025May 29, 2025 by David Gordon

With the support of MAGA “Fake Elector,” “Troll Farm” and Hobbs obstructionist Jake Hoffman, Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee has declared her candidacy to become the next Superintendent of Public Instruction and overseer of the billion dollar a year Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)-Arizona Private School Voucher-Home School Indoctrination and Welfare for the Wealthy Program. Yee, … Read more

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