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For years, opponents of school choice have been predicting that Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts policy would "bankrupt" the state. Instead, as the state’s education budget surplus demonstrates, school choice has reduced costs.

This won’t surprise Arizonans who have become accustomed to the empty scaremongering from Chicken Littles claiming that school choice would make the sky fall. But then again, they aren’t the target audience for this pernicious propaganda. Conservative lawmakers in other states are.

Over the past three years, Republican lawmakers in a dozen states have made all or nearly all K­­–12 students eligible for school choice. More red states, most notably Texas, appear ready to join them. To halt this progress, opponents of school choice have settled on a message intended to give conservatives pause: that school choice supposedly is a budget buster.

SCHOOL CHOICE BEING CELEBRATED IN FLORIDA AS TEACHERS UNIONS OPPOSE POLICY

"The universal school voucher program is unsustainable," Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, claimed last summer, arguing that the program needed to be curtailed lest it "bankrupt our state." Her proposed budget would have rolled back ESA eligibility,........

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