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How Open School Choice Creates Opportunities, Difficulties In Public Education

Tracie Ervin's son Michael Jr., 7, and daughter, Logan, 8, play a game that helps them practice typing speed and accuracy after school.
(Photo by Caitlin O'Hara for KJZZ)
Tracie Ervin's son Michael Jr., 7, and daughter, Logan, 8, play a game that helps them practice typing speed and accuracy after school.

It’s the end of the first quarter for a lot of Valley schools and Proposition 123 money has been parceled out to public districts. But where does that money go, exactly? In KJZZ’s new series, Inside Arizona Classrooms, we’ll follow along with teachers in public schools through the entire school year.


Casey Kuhn was a senior field correspondent at KJZZ from 2015 to 2019.