📚 Education Oct 13, 2026 · Katherine Bathgate

Education Savings Accounts: Boon or Boondoggle?

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Education Savings Accounts: Boon or Boondoggle?
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In the 1990s and 2000s, school choice advocates pushed states to enact voucher, scholarship, and charter school programs to help more families access alternatives to their local public school. Then, in 2011, Arizona created the first Education Savings Account program, which let parents use public funds for an array of educational products and services beyond private-school tuition.
More than a dozen states now offer ESAs for general-education students; three others offer them for special educati

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