Three decades ago, Arizona policymakers created opportunities for educators to start new schools and for families to choose between them. Unfortunately, though, the state’s current governor aims to sharply reverse Arizona’s embrace of educational choice.
Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, has called for the repeal of two programs: scholarship tax credits and education savings accounts.
But reinstituting the tyranny of ZIP codes in assigning schooling would throw the lives of thousands of Arizona children into academic and social chaos at a huge expense to taxpayers.
In 1994, Arizona lawmakers created a statewide open-enrollment statute allowing parents to choose between public schools and the nation’s most robust charter school law. In 1997, lawmakers followed with the creation of scholarship tax credits to provide students with assistance to attend private…
