Few would claim Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes was in cahoots with Tom Horne, the state’s superintendent of public instruction. Mayes is a Democrat while Horne is a Republican, and the two have sparred frequently and publicly over Horne’s lax administration of Arizona’s permissive school voucher program, which costs taxpayers about $1 billion a year.
Yet in their zeal to look tough on voucher fraud — or, in Horne’s case, to allegedly throw investigators some red meat — the pair may have ruined the life of a whistleblower in the Arizona Department of Education.
That’s the tale told by a recent complaint filed in Maricopa County Superior Court by Dorrian Jones, a former employee of the Arizona Department of Education tasked with overseeing compliance issues in the Empowerment Scholarship Account program, which doles out millions of dollars to parents looking to homeschool their…
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