A ballot proposal’s income cap could put thousands of Arizona students at risk of being removed from the state’s school choice program, according to a new report.
Common Sense Institute Arizona released a report showing that if voters approve the Protect Education Act, the ballot initiative’s $150,000 income cap would remove 20,300 current students from the Empowerment Scholarship Account program. ESA provides funding for students to attend alternatives to their public neighborhood school.
The report highlighted that another 400,000 school-aged children could be excluded from the program based on their household income.
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