By Jessica Votipka | Arizona Agenda
It’s a scandalous tale of alleged initiative interference, sketchy-at-best finances, mysterious applicants and mass confusion — all brought to you by the folks who like Arizona school vouchers just the way they are.
Allegations have been circulating that one of the initiatives to regulate Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program (the formal name for Arizona’s voucher program) is a decoy — a very similar-looking initiative established to confuse potential signers and sabotage the efforts of the other.
Attorney Jim Barton represents Protect Education, Accountability Now, which is backed by groups like Save Our Schools Arizona and the Arizona Education Association. Their ballot measure would add guardrails to ESAs.
