Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman announced the hiring of Karla Escobar as the Arizona Department of Education’s new Director of the Empowerment Scholarship Account program. Escobar has worked at ADE for the last seven years, having previously served in the role as ESA Director from February 2015 until April 2016, and most recently as a Dispute Resolution Compliant Investigator. Escobar will lead a staff of 11 other full-time employees, managing a program that dispersed roughly $58.7 million to approximately 5,000 students this past school year.
