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Arizona School Choice Wins Legal Battle | Salt Lake City News
Arizona’s $870 million school choice program, Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, is expanding rapidly—helping over 100,000 students since starting with special needs kids. Teachers’ unions pushed back with Proposition 212, aiming to restrict access, especially for higher-income families, but their effort collapsed after a court found thousands of signatures invalid—including some from collectors with criminal records. The Arizona Supreme Court officially rejected the measure, clearing the way for the program to grow. Utah’s similar scholarship initiative now watches closely, as unions there…
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