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'''Educational Savings Account''' (ESA) is a school voucher program enacted in [[Iowa]] in 2023,<ref>https://www.kcrg.com/2023/06/09/iowa-school-voucher-applications-surpass-expectations-cost-likely-follow/</ref> and sought by Gov. [[Greg Abbott]] in [[Texas]] in a third legislative session there in October 2023.

'''Educational Savings Account''' (ESA) is a school voucher program enacted in [[Iowa]] in 2023,<ref>https://www.kcrg.com/2023/06/09/iowa-school-voucher-applications-surpass-expectations-cost-likely-follow/</ref> and sought by Gov. [[Greg Abbott]] in [[Texas]] in a third legislative session there in October 2023.

It consists of families obtaining state money to put into their ESA in order to defray the expenses of private education.

It consists of families obtaining state money to put into their ESA in order to defray the expenses of private education. 

 

 

[[Arizona]], which has the worst [[public school]]s in the [[United States]], was the first to implement ESAs.  Originally limited to certain conditions such as leaving a failing public school or having special needs, this program expanded to become available  to all beginning for the 2022-23 school year.  The vast majority of the benefits of this program goes to students who were never in public school.

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