Don’t Take the Money? The Risks of Education Savings Accounts | An Interview with Jim Mason

What are Education Savings Accounts (ESAs)—and what do they mean for homeschool freedom? Join Amy Buchmeyer (HSLDA Staff Attorney) in this discussion with Jim Mason (HSLDA President). They’ll talk about:

• The arguments surrounding ESAs
• How public funding for homeschooling could increase regulation
• What Amy and Jim are seeing in the current 2023 legislative season
• Why HSLDA, a liberty-based organization, is regularly opposing ESA bills 

“Where the focus isn’t on liberty, accountability is going to be the focus. And some of these bills, they mean tremendous amounts of money are flowing, which is sort of alarming because I homeschooled seven children over almost 30 years, some of these bills would have brought in tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of dollars over that time. There’s an enormous fiscal impact that I don’t hear a lot of people talking about.”—Jim Mason