The president of Arizona’s largest teachers’ union says a recent audit of the state’s school voucher program reinforces what teachers have been saying for years: that the program is fraught with waste and abuse.
Arizona Education Association President Marisol Garcia says financial concerns are why a citizen’s initiative to put guardrails on school vouchers is gaining traction among voters.
"It used to take me months to be able to get approval for me to take my eighth graders on a city bus down to the public library, where some of these families are buying tickets to Disneyland and taking their kids to trips in Europe and those get approved almost immediately," Garcia said.
State superintendent Tom Horne said in response to the audit that the program is “being operated appropriately and has been falsely and unfairly attacked.”
