Tag: school voucher
An Arizona couple donated $1 million to help foster children. One year later, they did even more. See more state education news here

Randy Hansen was about to give three women he hardly knew $1 million.
Randy’s wife, Leslie, was worried. She kept thinking: It’s a lot of money.
Randy knew she was right, but he just kept thinking: It’s the right thing.
These weren’t just any strangers. These three foster moms, Anika Robinson, Susan Woodruff and Angela Teachout, had changed lives, laws and rallied foster parents to hold Arizona’s child-welfare system accountable. Randy liked imagining how many more children they could help with $1 million.
Ducey: Get suicide prevention funding to schools now. See more state education news here

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey wants to help schools combat the teen suicide epidemic immediately through state grants from a $20 million pot he created to hire additional mental health counselors and school resource officers.
Save Our Schools Arizona Responds To Latest Lawsuit

The fight over expanding our state’s school voucher program continues this week as a coalition of conservative activists filed a lawsuit over an attempt to delay the expansion going into effect.
Save Our Schools Arizona filed more than 100,000 petition signatures to attempt to block the voucher program from taking effect until voters can weigh in in a statewide vote next year.
In response, the Goldwater Institute and others filed the suit Wednesday saying the attempt to delay the law puts families who were hoping to use the vouchers to enroll their children in private schools this year in a tough spot.
House postpones action on vouchers bill

The Arizona House of Representatives has postponed a debate on a bill to massively expand the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program. Several Republicans said the measure, which passed the Senate on Monday, doesn’t have the votes in the lower chamber.