STOs; scholarship reporting; identification numbers

SB 1726 requires certified school tuition organizations (STOs) in Arizona to report detailed student data to the Department of Education annually. It creates a student identifier system to track scholarship recipients and mandates STOs to submit specific information, including each student's family income level (categorized by federal lunch program thresholds), the amount of scholarship received, and the school attended. The bill also requires STOs to report the number and dollar amounts of scholarships awarded to students in different income brackets, broken down by school. The Department of Education must then post this aggregated data publicly on its website by March 31 each year. This bill directly affects STOs, students receiving scholarships, and the Department of Education.