Within a five-house stretch on Tania Walchli’s block in Queen Creek, children attend at least four schools: two that are part of the local public school district and two public charter schools.
It’s entirely different from Rancho Santa Margarita, the Orange County, California city, where her family lived before moving to Arizona in 2021. There, her neighbors’ kids all went to the same school, she said.
As Queen Creek Unified School District seeks voter approval for bond funding, for the third consecutive year, to accommodate its rapid growth, Walchli, who is campaigning for the bond, sees Arizona’s school choice-rich environment as a potential obstacle to the measure’s passage.
After three decades of school choice expansion in Arizona, Queen Creek Unified’s district boundaries no longer encompass the universe of people who use the district, complicating the landscape for school…
