After back-and-forth, new AZ budget fully funds booming voucher program at nearly $1 billion - AZ Luminaria

After back-and-forth, new AZ budget fully funds booming voucher program at nearly $1 billion - AZ Luminaria

Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program will be fully funded next school year after the Legislature passed the budget Friday.  The program is estimated to be funded at more than $880 million this year and that’s about 8% of all K-12 funding, Common Sense Institute Arizona says. That means the ESA program will be 1.54% of the total Arizona state budget ($17.6 billion.) For the school year ending in 2024, there were 1.15 million public a…