Mike Pence praises Arizona for breaking through 'ceiling' on school choice

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Former Vice President Mike Pence hailed Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey for "seizing" an educational moment in the Grand Canyon State.

Ducey signed expansive school choice legislation into law in July, expanding education savings accounts to have universal eligibility.The first state in the nation to pass education scholarship accounts, Arizona's move opened the program to all 1.1 million K-12 students in the state.  "I came here just to thank Arizona for leading the nation on school choice," Pence said at the Club for Growth School Freedom Forum in Phoenix, Ariz., on Tuesday.

Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Family Leader's annual leadership summit, in Des Moines, Iowa on July 16, 2021. (Fox News ) Pence, the former governor of Indiana, said that while the Hoosier State played an "outsized role in the history of choice," establishing the very first private choice scholarship program in the 1990s, it was Arizona that took the coveted final step. "The hope of every state that was championing the right of parents to choose where their children go to school - whether it's public, private, parochial or home school, was ultimately to have universal school choice," Pence told Fox News Digital after the event. "And the fact that Arizona accomplished that, I think is a game changer.

I think it's a game changer for education in America. And as I said today, I think it's I think it's a hope for renewing the country." Pence "conceded" that he hit a "ceiling" on school choice both as governor and later as vice president.