PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes is dropping her legal fight to require parents of children who get vouchers to document each purchase and how items are truly educational.
Mayes has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the Goldwater Institute that challenged her position that individual “supplemental” items bought by parents must be listed as required or recommended in a specific curriculum document before they can get reimbursed. The challengers said that mandate, which had been implemented by the Department of Education at her direction, created unnecessary — and they argued, illegal — hurdles for items as simple as books and pencils.
But the agreement does not create carte blanche for voucher parents — mainly of homeschooled children — to now just go out and buy what they want.
