Vicki Murray, Ph.D

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Survey of Arizona Private Schools: Tuition, Testing, and Curricula

• by Vicki Murray, Ph.D
• February 20, 2015

Arizona public school enrollment is projected to exceed one million students by 2013. Currently, Arizona ranks first nationally for highest capital outlay expenditures and second for interest on school debt expenditures, totaling nearly $2,000 per student.1 Arizona’s private schools educate five percent of the state’s K-12 student population. Developing policies that take advantage of existing and potential private school capacity could help ease the public school burden of educating significantly more students, while potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars annually.