Voucher oversight splits candidates for Arizona schools chief

Arizona’s billion-dollar and growing school voucher program took center stage Tuesday night as state Treasurer Kimberly Yee and former schoolteacher and community college president Teresa Leyba Ruiz sparred over how they would lead Arizona’s public schools as the next state schools chief. The program, known formally as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, is projected to cost the […]
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