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
Over the last few days, the organization Save Our Schools (SOS) Arizona has launched a state budget education campaign blasting the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Program (ESA)and the Ducey-approved Flat Tax for blowing a hole (about $1.8 billion) in the fiscal budget, making the Grand Canyon State the financial equivalent of Kansas from the … Read more
The Arizona Attorney General’s office, headed by Kris Mayes, announced the indictment of five individuals, three of them former employees at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) for “allegedly engaging in fraud, conspiracy, computer tampering, illegally conducting an enterprise, money laundering and forgery related to the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) Program.” The defendants who have … Read more
And we are off. Welcome to 2024. The ESA wars in Arizona have begun. In possibly a preview of comments that will be in her upcoming State of the State Address on Monday, January 8, 2023, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs threw the first salvo in what is likely going to be a long dragged-out fight … Read more
Last October, the Blog for Arizona and other news outlets, especially ABC 15 News, reported on some of the questionable expenses of Empowerment Scholarship Account (E.S.A.) recipients (70,000 as of now with $665 million spent according to the JBLC) that met the approval of the Department of Education. Among these approved expenses were: Last week, … Read more