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More states are making all students eligible for private school subsidies. In Arizona, it has often benefited wealthier families.

In a plan approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature last year, Arizona became the first state to make every student, even those from wealthy families, eligible for a school voucher — on average worth about $7,200 per student annually.

Tom Horne’s whole job is public education. It’s in his title — superintendent of public instruction in Arizona — where

PHOENIX — Tom Horne’s whole job is public education. It’s in his title — superintendent of public instruction in Arizona — where he oversees the education of 1.1 million public school students. But in an advertising campaign this summer, Horne makes a pitch to parents who are unhappy with public school: You can choose a private school, and Arizona will help pay for it. Horne, a Republican who won election last year promising conservative values, is overseeing a pioneering effort in Arizona to of

In his keynote address at the National Symposium for Classical Education in February, Daniel Scoggin, co-founder of the classical charter school network Great Hearts Academies, traced the decline of classical education in America back to liberal ideas of the Enlightenment, ideas that, in his telling, unleashed an individualism, industrialism, and relativism antithetical to any education oriented to truth, beauty, and goodness.