Jackson's Advocacy

06/16/2026

Parenting a child with special needs in Arizona? Before you jump into the ESA conversation, read this thoughtful guide that breaks down who truly benefits — and who might not. Get the real-world factors other parents wish they'd known. Read more: https://wix.to/9rspE7C

If you're an Arizona parent of a special needs kid, or a kid with an IEP, you've heard the buzz about ESAs by now. Maybe another mom brought it up at therapy. Maybe you saw the number, over 100,000 Arizona kids using them, and thought, "Wait, am I leaving money on the table?"Let me tell you what nob...

06/15/2026

The school said they’d “make sure he gets extra time”? Great. Lovely. Write it in the IEP.
“She’ll always have access to the sensory room”? Wonderful. Write it in.
“Oh, we just do that anyway, we don’t need to write it down.” That’s fascinating, because verbal promises have the same legal weight as a pinky swear, and staff turnover is real. Write. It. In.
Paper outlasts personnel. Before you sign, check that everything discussed in that meeting actually made it onto the page. Yes, even if the meeting is in hour three and you’d sign almost anything to leave.