Analysis: School vouchers could cost tens of millions
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February 16, 2017
PHOENIX (AP) — The Legislature's independent budget office estimates that expanding a school voucher program to all Arizona schoolchildren over the next four years could cost more than $24 million, a number that could go much higher.
That's because more public school students are likely to take state cash for private schools and children who never went to public schools would qualify, according to the report from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
Republican Sen. Debbie Lesko, of Peoria, is pushing the proposal to expand what started several years ago as a small program that has since bee...
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