Jenny Clark is an Arizona education advocate and founder of Love Your School, a nonprofit organization that helps families navigate school choice options, including Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program. Clark serves on the Arizona State Board of Education and is a national speaker on education freedom, school choice, and parent empowerment. A mother of five, she has become a prominent voice on ESAs and alternative education models, helping families access public, charter, private, homeschool, microschool, and online learning opportunities.
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2026-05-27
Jenny Clark on How Arizona's ESA Program is Changing Education for FamiliesIn the latest episode of the Phoenix Business Brief podcast, host Brian Hyde interviews Jenny Clark, founder of Arizona Loves ESAs, about the impact of Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program on education. Clark discusses the program's history, its expansion to universal eligibility in 2022, and the challenges posed by opposition groups, including the National Education Association. The conversation highlights the importance of school choice for Arizona families and the ongoing battle to protect the ESA program from potential regulatory changes.
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“Arizona has had empowerment scholarships since 2011, allowing families to take a portion of their student's education funding and use that scholarship for home education, micro schooling, tutors, therapists, and even private school tuition.”
“Our ESA program is considered the best in the country because it has no student cap, it has no dollar cap, and every student in Arizona, kindergarten through 12th grade, qualifies.”
“Empowerment scholarships are changing people's lives. They're changing kids' lives.”
“The majority of the families that are presently receiving an empowerment scholarship are middle-income families.”
“We are creating an environment that is very quick, that is very fast, where if a student isn't learning, if a student is being bullied, if a student is going through some type of trauma and needs to be home educated, they actually have a choice.”
“We should be supporting any education environment that is gonna help that student achieve that type of success.”
