A failing charter school in Arizona closed and reopened as a private LDS school funded by taxpayer vouchers. Parents who had enrolled their children in the charter school were given limited options for their children's education.
Arizona regulators closed a failing charter school. It reopened as a private LDS school funded by taxpayers.Individually, the moms and dads were called in to speak to the principal. That’s when they were told that the school, still just a few months old, was closing due to financial problems.
Over the course of that week, more parents were given the news, as well as their options for the remainder of the school year: They could transfer their children to another private or charter school, or they could put them in athat the principal said she’d soon be setting up in her living room. Or there was always homeschooling. Or even public school. These families had, until this moment, embodied Arizona’s “school choice” ideal. Many of them had been disappointed by their local public schools, which some felt were indoctrinating kids in subjects like race and sex and, of course, were lacking in religious instruction. So they’d shopped for other educational options on the free market, eventually leading them to Title of Liberty. One mom had even discovered the school by window shopping: It was in the same strip mall as her orthodontist’s office, next to a China Palace, and she’d noticed the flags outside with Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints imagery. (The school was not formally affiliated with the church.) An LDS member herself, she was soon ready to start paying tuition to the school from her son’s Empowerment Scholarship Account — a type of school voucherand now spreading in various forms to more than a dozen other states. ESAs give parents an average of over $7,000 a year in taxpayer funds, per child, to spend on any private school, tutoring service or other educational expense of their choice. (Adriana Zehbrauskas | ProPublica) A sign for Title of Liberty is still standing. The abandoned school can be seen in the backgroun
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