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Mosby

(17,526 posts)
Wed Aug 28, 2024, 01:52 PM Aug 2024

Dune buggy boondoggle shows a crying need for better school voucher oversight

Good news for taxpayers, especially the ones who think public money ought to go to public schools.

The state is drawing the line at paying for dune buggies.

Kayaks, apparently, still are allowed as an acceptable educational expense under the state’s universal school voucher program, as are $900 Lego sets, trampoline sessions, Broadway tickets and espresso machines.

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The Arizona State Board of Education on Monday rejected a parent’s appeal to use her kids’ state school Empowerment Scholarship Accounts to buy three dune buggies.

“At some point, I think the question of reasonableness comes to mind,” Board President Daniel Corr said, in voting to order the woman to pay for her own darn dune buggies.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/08/27/esa-arizona-school-voucher-accountability-dune-buggies/74971886007/

The whole voucher system is such bullshit.

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Dune buggy boondoggle shows a crying need for better school voucher oversight (Original Post) Mosby Aug 2024 OP
These voucher recipients Diamond_Dog Aug 2024 #1

Diamond_Dog

(34,905 posts)
1. These voucher recipients
Wed Aug 28, 2024, 02:35 PM
Aug 2024

are probably the same ones who would shriek over free school lunches for all public school children because it would cost the taxpayers too much money.

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