<p>Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona">Arizona</a> governor, released her education plan on Sunday, which doubles down on her opposition to school choice.</p>
<p>Hobbs, who is currently Arizona&#8217;s secretary of state and herself a private school graduate, said her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education">education</a> plan for Arizona includes cracking down on the state&#8217;s school voucher program.</p>
<p>&#8220;Too often, Republicans have completely disregarded public opinion in an effort to defund our public schools. At every turn, they have moved to expand school vouchers without common-sense measures of accountability, with the clear intent to eventually do away with our local public schools,&#8221; Hobbs said in her <a href="https://katiehobbs.org/katie-hobbs-delivers-a-prepared-arizona-plan-to-bolster-the-states-education-system/">plan</a>.</p>
<p>Arizona <a href="https://azgovernor.gov/governor/news/2022/07/governor-ducey-signs-most-expansive-school-choice-legislation-recent-memory">expanded</a> its school voucher program over the summer. Governor Doug Ducey (R-AZ) signed a <a href="https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/77976">bill</a> in July allowing every Arizona student to get a taxpayer-funded Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) to pay for their education at a private school, <a href="https://www.azed.gov/sites/default/files/2022/08/H.B.%202853%20FAQ.pdf">about</a> $6,500 per child for grades 1-12.</p>
<p>In the first two weeks after the online portal for new ESA applications opened, the state <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2022/09/01/private-school-students-flock-to-expanded-school-voucher-program/">received</a> around 6,800 new applications for school vouchers.</p>
<p>Hobbs said that as governor, she would roll back the expansion.</p>
<p>&#8220;Vouchers should not have been expanded to provide an unaccountable means of enriching private schools and defunding our local public schools,&#8221; she said in her plan.</p>
<p>Hobbs also attacked Arizona Republicans, who she said &#8220;pressed forward with their latest attack on our schools&#8221; by passing the universal expansion of school vouchers.</p>
<p>&#8220;The unaccountable spending of taxpayer dollars needs to change,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile though, Hobbs also wants Arizona public schools to be able to spend more money.</p>
<p>Her plan supports eliminating Arizona&#8217;s spending limit on public schools, known as the aggregate expenditure limit (AEL), which caps the amount of money public schools can spend out of their budget. Arizona&#8217;s public schools are <a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/education/school-districts-call-on-arizona-legislature-to-lift-spending-limit/article_e542b862-306b-11ed-a443-a3c0d99b8a84.html">estimated</a> to spend $1.3 billion less this fiscal year with the spending cap.</p>
<p>Hobbs herself is a beneficiary of a private school education.</p>
<p>Hobbs graduated from Seton Catholic Preparatory, a private Catholic high school in Chandler, Arizona in 1988. Seton has proudly <a href="https://4.files.edl.io/777c/02/07/20/182935-01c2dad9-46ad-4bd3-9986-918989df274a.pdf">highlighted</a> Hobbs&#8217; attendance in the past.</p>
<p>Hobbs herself has said she had a positive experience at the school. She <a href="https://www.gilbertsunnews.com/news/seton-catholic-high-celebrating-years-of-service/article_3774994c-e6f6-11e9-9ced-737f09da9bae.html">noted</a> in 2019 that Seton teachers encouraged her to look at things from different perspectives, like how to see the relevance in older classic literature.</p>
<p>“It really felt like a family,” Hobbs <a href="https://www.gilbertsunnews.com/news/seton-catholic-high-celebrating-years-of-service/article_3774994c-e6f6-11e9-9ced-737f09da9bae.html">said</a>. “You really had a chance to get to know the people that you went to school with.”</p>
<p>Support for school choice has <a href="https://www.federationforchildren.org/national-school-choice-poll-shows-67-of-voters-support-school-choice-2019/">increased</a> since before the pandemic as frustrated parents confronted school boards over a litany of issues including COVID restrictions and curriculum materials they deemed inappropriate.</p>
<p>Other states are also working to expand school choice. Last month, a school choice group in Michigan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-school-choice-group-clears-major-hurdle-in-circumventing-whitmers-veto">cleared</a> one of two major hurdles it needs to circumvent Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s (D-MI) veto of a school choice measure.</p>
<p>Also on Sunday, Hobbs&#8217; campaign <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-campaigns-government-and-politics-540ee7c3603d522c4e12c4e7083443b5">announced</a> that she will not debate her opponent, Republican Kari Lake after over a week of negotiations. Hobbs had attempted to replace the debate with having the candidates do separate half-hour interviews with the moderator instead.</p>

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