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Election 2026

Arizona school voucher supporters seek to get ‘poison pill’ measure back on the ballot

PHOENIX — Voucher supporters are asking the Arizona Supreme Court to put a measure with a “poison pill” to kill reform of the Empowerment Scholarship Account program back on the November ballot after it was removed by a trial judge.

Attorney Thomas Basile does not dispute that there are two separate provisions in Proposition 145 that would amend the Arizona Constitution.

One would forever protect the ability of children in military families to get vouchers of taxpayer dollars to attend private and parochial schools and for home schooling to save up the money not spent each year for college.

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