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Arizona families, school leaders and policymakers weigh in on ESAs as KAWC examines school choice, access, cost and accountability — and asks what education is for.

Kimberly Yee and Teresa Leyba Ruiz faced off Tuesday in Arizona’s superintendent debate, clashing over ESA oversight, teacher retention and the direction of public education.

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.

Measure proposing major reforms to Empowerment Scholarship Account program will no longer go to voters after missing mark on signatures, according to ruling from Arizona Supreme Court.

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 Supreme Court ruled Republican lawmakers used non-neutral language to describe Prop. 212, while a separate court battle could determine whether the ESA reform measure makes the Nov. ballot.

Arizona ESAs carry a lower price tag than public school spending, but that doesn’t necessarily mean equivalent savings for the state. KAWC examines the math behind one of the program’s central claims.

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.