Christian Nationalists Cash In on Arizona Voucher Scheme
Millions in unaccountable funds prop up extremist agenda
Arizona’s problematic school voucher scheme has become a boon to Christian Nationalists seeking taxpayer funds to prop up their extreme agenda.
Save Our Schools Arizona has the details.
Millions for extremist indoctrination: Now, new records show two schools with far-right extremist roots — Dream City Christian and Tipping Point Academy — are cashing in big time from the unaccountable, unregulated voucher program designed to privatize public schools. Dream City Christian School in Glendale (affiliated with Dream City Church, famous for its pro-Trump Freedom Night rallies, and Turning Point USA) has more than doubled its voucher income — from about $941,000 in 2023 to $1.5 million in 2024 and now already clearing $2 million in 2025. With high school tuition at over $14,500, vouchers cover some costs but price out lower-income families. It’s worth noting that Turning Point USA announced the opening of the school just weeks after then Gov. Ducey forced through universal voucher expansion in 2022 to “combat woke curriculum” and disallow "radical LGBT agendas" and "anti-American ideas such as the 1619 Project.” The school’s faculty and students must sign on to an anti-LGBTQ Statement of Faith which declares there are only two genders and marriage is between a man and a woman.
According to the report, Tipping Point Academy in Scottsdale also launched as the state legislature universally expanded universal vouchers, and has snowballed its ESA voucher revenue from nearly $200,000 in 2023 to almost $500,000 this year. The school’s owner says the goal is to open 100 campuses over the next decade. The school is run by the Great State Alliance, whose mission is for “like minded conservatives” to use “faith, family, and freedom” to “restore businesses, schools, and churches in our communities.” The school uses a curriculum called The Noah Plan, which weaves the Bible into every subject.
This approach reminds me of Hillsdale College’s attempt to access local and state tax dollars in Tennessee to operate Christian Nationalist charter schools.
Make no mistake, Hillsdale’s plans include not only the collapse of Tennessee public schools, but also the ability to treat local taxpayers as an ATM machine in support of an extreme agenda.