A middle school for LGBTQ+ teens will open in Arizona next year. Public vouchers will fund it.

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The Queer Blended Learning Center, a microschool, will launch in Phoenix, Arizona, next year for middle school students. Housed at one∙n∙ten, a nonprofit that serves LGBTQ+ youth, parents will be able to pay for tuition with education vouchers.

While the class size may be small, the impact on students’ lives will be enormous. So far, only about a half-dozen students are enrolled, but the class size could potentially double.

“We’re seeing nationally that LGBTQ youth are, frankly, under attack legislatively,” one∙n∙ten CEO Nate Rhoton told the Arizona Republic. “It’s deadly to the youth that we serve.”

The state legislature passed a bill this year that would have required students to…

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