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Arizona court kills voucher ballot measure, leaving a national school choice debate unresolved

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Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. The Arizona Supreme Court effectively killed a ballot measure that would have brought significant oversight and an income cap to the state’s school voucher-like program in a ruling Tuesday. The battle over the measure brought high drama to the desert — and exposed cracks forming between conservatives over oversight of the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, which families can use like vouchers on homeschooling, private school, and other expenses. Those divisions are still in play: In the state superintendent’s race, Arizona voters will choose between two candidates who disagree sharply about whether the ESAs need more regulations. Yet the ballot measure’s failure demonstrates that enacting new rules for longstanding universal school choice programs can be a difficult task in the current climate — even if some voucher supporters express qualified support for those limits. Arizo

First report: Voucher-reform measure hangs by a thread as Supreme Court weighs signatures — azmirror.com, 1d