School Choice in Arizona Saves Taxpayers Money

The infinite monkey theorem holds that if you keep a group of chimpanzees in a room full of typewriters long enough, they will eventually pound out a copy of King Lear. Likewise school-choice opponents, after decades of predicting school-choice doomsday scenarios that have never materialized, have found a gross school-choice distortion that some people are ready to believe: that Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Program is supposedly “bankrupting” the state budget.

The false claim originated from a memo from Arizona governor Katie Hobbs, and the press has been eagerly parroting it. The truth, however, is that Arizona’s K–12 choice program saves taxpayers money while giving families the opportunity to select schooling that matches their needs and values.

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Matthew Ladner

Matthew Ladner is a senior adviser for education-policy implementation in the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.

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The infinite monkey theorem holds that if you keep a group of chimpanzees in a room full of typewriters long enough, they will eventually pound out a copy of King Lear. Likewise school-choice opponents, after decades of predicting school-choice doomsday scenarios that have never materialized, have found a gross school-choice distortion that some people are ready to believe: that Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Program is supposedly “bankrupting” the state budget.

The false claim originated from a memo from Arizona governor Katie Hobbs, and the press has been eagerly parroting it. The truth, however, is that Arizona’s K–12 choice program saves taxpayers money while giving families the opportunity to select schooling that matches their needs and values.