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Class Dismissed
When a state divests from public education
Neason, Alexandria http://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/class-dismissed/
Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
A look at education in the state of Arizona where Empowerment Education Accounts (ESA's), money otherwise used to fund public education, are upheld by conservatives as a successful means of advancing private alternatives to traditional schooling.
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Early this May, the temperature in Phoenix reached 106 degrees Fahrenheit - the sort of dry, searing heat that locals don't expect until deep summer. On May 8, when it had cooled to a comfortable 83, the students walking between classes at Mountain Sky Junior High School seemed relieved. Mountain Sky is at the north end of Phoenix, just off West Greenway Parkway, a road that draws a dividing line: On one side, there are dozens of modest single-family-housing complexes spreading into the distance, their roofs terra-cotta and stucco, their back yards appointed with turquoise pools. On the other, there is a mobile-home park where stained furniture has been strewn about, discarded.
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