Roopali Desai Helps Secure Arizonans’ Right to Vote on State School Voucher Program Expansion
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge threw out a lawsuit challenging a citizens’ referendum on Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program and ruled that the referendum – now known as Proposition 305 – may go to the voters at the November 2018 election. Coppersmith Brockelman’s Roopali Desai and the firm’s election law group worked with Save Our Schools Arizona to fight for Arizonans’ right to refer Senate Bill 1431, which expands Arizona’s ESA program to all public-school students who want to apply for public money to pay for private and religious school tuition and educational therapies. Under the original ESA program, only special needs students, students at low-performing schools, and students in foster care or military families were eligible. Thousands of Arizonans signed Save Our Schools...
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