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A special Educating Yuma takeover of Arizona Edition explores why families use ESAs, what school choice looks like in Yuma and where questions of access and accountability remain.

In the final part of KAWC’s ESA series, supporters and critics find unexpected common ground on school choice and accountability — but sharply different ideas about what those principles should mean.

Universal ESAs have changed how Yuma families pay for private school, offering more predictable tuition support — but limited school options, capacity and uncertainty over the program’s future remain.

Arizona parents use Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for reasons ranging from disability services to homeschooling and religious education. They share what school choice looks like for their families.

Arizona’s ESA program has grown from 144 participants to nearly 103K. KAWC looks at how the program works, how spending's monitored and why it remains one of Arizona’s most contested policies.

Yuma Catholic High School welcomed nearly 600 students for its first day of classes Wednesday, marking record enrollment as students and staff shared their excitement for the new school year.

Students, alumni and educators from Desert View Academy, Southwestern Christian School and EOC Charter High School share what school choice means to them.

Republicans who have championed school choice programs, including a voucher program that allows state money to fund private school tuition, now want to require Arizona's public school districts to let private school students compete on their sports teams.

The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools has initiated proceedings to revoke the charter of Primavera Online School, an online institution serving approximately 6,787 K-12 students statewide.

By Howard FischerCapitol Media ServicesPHOENIX -- Republican senators gave the go-ahead Monday for what could be a huge expansion in the use of tax…