{"id":6605,"date":"2017-04-17T15:26:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/17\/every-public-school-student-in-arizona-gets-chance-at-choice\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:56:32","slug":"every-public-school-student-in-arizona-gets-chance-at-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/every-public-school-student-in-arizona-gets-chance-at-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Every public school student in Arizona gets chance at choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University English graduate Jonathan Butcher, Class of 2000, writes an article in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/every-public-school-student-in-arizona-will-get-a-chance-at-choice-1492209395?emailToken=JRrydfB8Z3+Vgd0wbcwxylAyf+wQFuWNR1iSN3vKPU\/I8WfJvO6swblwht3yqHmuV0F87pUb7mo7ADLcnC9jGcSRkrh0nBKtZzxWrpbF2gDOYxiKxhTSLLFN6w\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> about school choice in Arizona. Governor Doug Ducey recently\u00a0signed a bill that will give every public school student in Arizona\u20141.2 million in all\u2014an opportunity to apply to a program which allows parents who take children out of public schools to receive, in a private account, a portion of the funds that the state would have spent on their children&#8217;s education. Says Butcher, &#8220;Many families would like to send their children to private schools or home-school them, but they simply cannot afford to\u2014especially since they are taxed to pay for public schools regardless. A program like Arizona\u2019s allows these parents to make the best choice for their families, whether that means a religious school, a secular private school or home schooling.&#8221; Butcher is education director at the Goldwater Institute and senior fellow at the Beacon Center of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University English graduate Jonathan Butcher, Class of 2000, writes an article in The Wall Street Journal about school choice in Arizona. Governor Doug Ducey recently\u00a0signed a bill that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}