The Truth About ESA Vouchers
ESA vouchers will cost
$
0
This school year alone.
Get the Facts
- ESA = “Empowerment Scholarship Account,” a deceptive term for voucher
ESA vouchers will cost the state $825 million in FY2024 (Arizona Department of Education)
- Every new ESA voucher represents subtracts funding from our local public schools, which are already funded 49th in the US (Making the Grade 2023)
- Vouchers do not save Arizona money: the minimum ESA voucher is $500 higher than the state per-pupil funding to district schools
- 75% of vouchers go to students already enrolled in private school or homeschool (bit.ly/VoucherVerdict)
- Supt. Horne is spending hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to advertise vouchers (Arizona Capitol Times)
- 77% of ESA voucher users are from wealthy zip codes in AZ (ABC 15)
- Voucher funds are reimbursed by Supt. Horne’s ADE – most expenses are Amazon & Venmo purchases to a massive list of 3000 vendors (bit.ly/vendorsESA)
- Reimbursements include questionable expenditures such as gourmet espresso machines, snow cone maker, home gyms, chicken coops, zoo and bounce memberships, trips, and so much more (bit.ly/VoucherWaste)
In the News
ADE recently spent
$600K to advertise
ESA program
'Bankrupt our state': Expected school voucher surge to cost Arizona taxpayers a lot more money
Valley couple says daughter's school is discriminating against them because they are gay
Robbing From the Poor
to Educate the Rich
Arizona school voucher program growth explodes to $900 million for the upcoming school year
Trampolines and cowboy classes: Arizona parents take advantage of state’s homeschooling funds
Nation watches as
Arizona’s universal ESA voucher
fiasco fails
