Arizona ESA Audit: 20% Unallowed Spending
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Arizonas AG reveals alarming audit data on Empowerment Scholarship Account program, with over twenty percent of sampled purchases from December 2024 to September 2025 found to be unallowed under state rules. The program, serving over one hundred thousand students, automatically approves all transactions under $2,000 for later review. However, risk-based checks triggered full audits of flagged accounts, where forty-six percent of purchases did not meet guidelines, including items like video game consoles, televisions, dog training, gift cards, fitness gear, jewelry, and even trips or saunas. Meanwhile, many approved uses included private school tuition, homeschooling fees, gymnastics lessons, dance classes, therapies for disabilities, and language courses, though some got flagged initially for paperwork issues.
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