Arizona may not become like Kansas after all. Education activists filed a petition for an initiative that, if approved for the ballot, will stop the republican Flat Tax for the rich from ever taking effect. Arizona Education Association President Joe Thomas said the referendum process is necessary “to refer bad policy to the voters so … Read more
Eighteen months ago the Arizona Legislature shut down due to the COVID19 pandemic and the governor’s shelter in place order. Arizonans have traveled a rocky road since then. Throughout most of the pandemic, Arizona’s government has been willing to sacrifice lives in order to hew faithfully to the right’s anti-science ideology, which dovetails neatly with … Read more
This is a good day for Arizona schools and public health safety in the Grand Canyon state. In a 17-page ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper ruled several state laws unconstitutional, including laws that prohibited mask mandates in schools, took away power from the Secretary of State, banned “critical race theory” in classrooms, … Read more
Close to a million new jobs in Arizona over the next ten years. 115 billion dollars in added economic state activity over that same time span. Personal income growing by close to $100 billion with disposable earnings just under $85 billion. That is what the L. William Seidman Research Institute at the W.P. Carey School … Read more
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) released an analysis of COVID 19 outbreaks in Maricopa and Pima County Schools at the beginning of the 2021/22 school year. In the accumulated data, the CDC found: “Among the 999 (96.0%) schools included in the analysis, 210 (21.0%) had an early mask requirement, 309 (30.9%) had a late … Read more