For Immediate Release: August 29, 2022
Contact: Ryan Hite, Communications Director
Money Following Students, Not Schools, Is A Good Policy
Washington, D.C.: “One new state-level law in August didn’t make major headlines, but it should have,” said Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles. “Arizona Governor Ducey signed into law this month a major expansion of school vouchers, allowing parents to use them for private school tuition or even other educational expenses. This is a great step in the right direction, and something that educational choice and freedom activists celebrated this month.
“I think we should all pause and appreciate the move that Arizona has made, making sure that public education dollars get tied more to students than to specific districts or schools. Just as we believe that educational decision-making ought to fall to the most important people (families and parents) so we ought to work toward educational spending following the primary concern — our children. The public education system has become entrenched with special interests and wasteful corruption just like any government-run entity. It’s time for states to make some leaps and bounds putting money and control back into the power of We the People.”
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