Arizona voucher program supports vibrant fraud industry
Arizona’s voucher program seems to be particularly fraud-prone.
Peter Greene notes the latest:
Today, Mayes announced yet another fraud case in which a couple has been charged with 60 counts of fraud, having put in applications for 50 students, 43 of whom do not actually exist. The couple– Johnny Lee Bowers and Ashley Meredith Hewitt– apparently did not even live in Arizona at the time. They grabbed around $100K, which they used for “personal living expenses,” so this was like their job, what they did for a living.
Here’s the deal: The voucher scheme in Arizona is busting the budget – and it is rife with fraud.
As TN lawmakers consider vouchers (again), they should look at the results in Arizona – lots of fraud, little ROI in terms of student outcomes.
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