Arizona ESA LEGO Spending A Flourish story by Jen Jennings

Dig into Arizona LEGO spending with this data vis! And yes, every item below was purchased with taxpayer $ - and entirely allowed by the program.

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🫠 Chaos at the Arizona Legislature & impacts to K12

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😲 Today, the yearly cost of Arizona's universal voucher program reached $1 BILLION.

$1 billion in taxpayer funds are being siphoned into an unaccountable program that primarily benefits wealthier families who always chose private schools.

😞 “Teachers don’t feel supported… Arizona’s schools are underfunded, ranking 48th in the nation in per-student spending… Meanwhile, according to the Common Sense Institute, the state spent an estimated $882 million in taxpayer money for [ESA vouchers]."

😮12News reveals Supt. Horne’s ADE has approved nearly $40,000 in ESA voucher funding for luxury kitchen appliances in yet another #VoucherGrift.

What do you think – should AZ taxpayers be footing the bill for voucher-funded home kitchens?

📽️ Watch the full report ▶️ www.12news.com/article/news...

🚨URGENT: HB2640 is being heard TODAY!

HB2640 incentivizes local public schools to sell their campuses to private schools, accelerating school privatization and hurting neighborhood schools😖

💥ACT NOW: Use our quick- call tool to reach out to your AZ Reps. and urge them to vote NO! bit.ly/NoHB2640

This private school ad is beyond disgusting 🤮 “Don’t worry if your school shuts down (because of vouchers) — you can take a $7k ESA voucher and if you’re rich you can afford the difference and come here!”

Read our statement on President Trump’s Executive Order to advance school vouchers & privatization.

🗣️ SPEAK UP for Arizona kids! Use #RequestToSpeak NOW to urge lawmakers to vote YES on HB2213, which provides free school meals to all students currently receiving reduced price lunches.

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😮 Arizona’s ESA voucher program lacks any accountability, paving the way for fraud and fly-by-night schemes which are bad for AZ kids.

#VouchersHurt

Read the full story from ProPublica ➡️ www.propublica.org/article/ariz...

Arizona Regulators Closed a Failing Charter School. It Reopened as a Private Religious School Funded by Taxpayers. Arizona’s acclaimed voucher program provides zero transparency into private schools’ history, academic performance or financial sustainability to help parents make informed school choices.

👀 Read @propublica.org's shocking new account of a ESA voucher-funded strip mall school that failed families by shutting down with no warning— and zero accountability from the state.

www.propublica.org/article/ariz...

🗞️ The Weekly Education Report is back! This week:

👻 Indictments for massive fraud in the ESA voucher program
😞 Roosevelt shutters 5 community public schools
🍎 AZ voters want the #AZLeg to fund public schools

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Read our statement on Attorney General Mayes’ indictments regarding the latest instance of massive fraud in Arizona’s ESA voucher program. @azagmayes.bsky.social

Thank you for listening to your constituents and changing your vote!!

I'm hesitant to make any changes that would disenfranchise voters, but I agree that that same day voter registration could perhaps be worth the trade.

Maybe rather than making Friday a hard deadline, you require ID verification on Monday / Tuesday for drop off?

SOSAZ joined education advocates from across the nation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the annual Partnership for Equity & Education Rights (PEER) conference! We came together to learn, strategize, organize, and prepare for the year ahead to fuel our fight for Arizona’s students.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

NEW: A recent propublica.org investigation reveals how North Carolina's school voucher program is funding private schools that opened as "segregation academies" and continue to serve predominantly white students.
www.propublica.org/article/segr...

A screenshot of the title and abstract of the paper, also available on the link

First new working paper thread on Blue Sky! 🧵

In this study, Moontae Hwang, Marzuka Ahmad Radia, and I look at the impacts of school building HVAC system conditions on student outcomes in New York State . . .

edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1093

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

MUST-READ new @propublica.org
deep-dive on the former segregation academies getting school voucher cash.

And the stunning lack of transparency —even in states like NC that know how to collect the data.

(Plus a few comments from me 🤷‍♂️)
www.propublica.org/article/segr...

Hello Bluesky! Here is a list of public education advocates from across the country to follow :)