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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

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This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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COLUMN: Conservatives are embracing new alternative school models. Will the public?

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It’s not always clear, however that this money goes directly to schools and parents: In Arizona, millions of dollars also went to businesses and non-school spending, a recent investigation found. The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.”

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Parents are panicking, giving up their careers and spending thousands of dollars on piecemeal solutions for the school year

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Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program.

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OPINION: After two decades of studying voucher programs, I’m now firmly opposed to them

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I am an education policy professor who has spent almost two decades studying programs like these, and trying to follow the data where it leads. That’s because there aren’t enough decent private schools to serve at-risk kids. I’ve walked through hallways and seen signs promising an education of “Tradition!

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Michael Bloomberg unveils ‘progressive’ higher education plan

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Rick Hess, director of education policy strategies, American Enterprise Institute. Higher education experts have said Trump’s plan could push college out of reach for low-income students. “He is trying to say, ‘I’m planting my flag on bold and progressive plans, but I’m a technocrat with smart people.’

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