Arizona’s Attorney General indicted an out-of-state couple on December 2 for fraudulently siphoning off $110,000 in state taxpayer funds through 43 ghost/phantom school vouchers (ESAs). Ignoring the fraud, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne notified the State Board of Education 10 days later that the state would immediately issue funds for all expense requests … Read more
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
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
Here we go again. For the third year in a row, MAGA Republican Legislators at the Arizona State Capitol, the individuals who have mostly not met a private school ESA voucher expenses they did not approve of, appear to be dragging their feet on fixing the Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL,) the mechanism that, if not … Read more
Many of Arizona’s leaders, Democrat and Republican, took time today to salute the Civil Rights legacy and historical importance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to this country. Please see several of the postings below.