The Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization and the School Choice Arizona shared office in Chandler, photographed July 5, 2009.
Rep. Steve Yarbrough, left, speaks with Tom Boone, right, July 6, 2009, at the Arizona Capitol. Yarbrough is co-founder and executive director of the state’s most prolific tax credit charity. The nonprofit has given generously to Yarbrough, too.
Rep. Steve Yarbrough, left, speaks with Rep. Tom Boone at the Arizona Capitol. Yarbrough is co-founder and executive director of the state’s most prolific tax credit charity. The nonprofit has given generously to Yarbrough, too.
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JCAltmann posted at 3:38 pm on Sat, Aug 21, 2010.
This is embarrassing for the scholarship funds, like the Catholic fund, which do not have these practices and put the vast majority of the donated monies direct to helping students and their familes.
pissedofinglendale posted at 1:46 pm on Wed, Sep 29, 2010.
What a surprise. A Republican-run legislature that hates public education creates a program to "help" low-income people send their kids to private (read:Christian) schools not only doesn't increase the number of poor students in such schools, but is rife with corruption. It is already a well-known fact that most of the kids getting these scholarships were already enrolled in the private schools. No matter. Once again in November, Arizonans who get their "facts" from FOX and/or the Arizona Republic(an) will metaphorically pull the "R" lever in the voting booth, even as the state garners second place (behind only Mississippi) in poverty. Ya get what ya votes for, and in AZ, voters get a government by, of, and for the wealthy.
reeblite posted at 1:27 pm on Sun, Oct 3, 2010.
this article's over a year old, what's happened since then? nothing? abuse of a non profit...
reeblite posted at 1:27 pm on Sun, Oct 3, 2010.
if it were a marijuana dispensary, this wouldn't be allowed to happen...
Cerulean posted at 8:12 am on Wed, Mar 16, 2011.
$55 million every year goes to private schools while Public Education is being cut to the core. And our Republican legislators have convinced us that we need to keep increasing our taxes to pay for Public Education while "free money" goes to private education.
"investigation of Arizona’s Private School Tuition Tax Credits found the $55-million-a-year program has largely failed to expand access to private education for low- and middle-income families, as promised."