Arizona Channel 12 News Craig Harris has followed up on his reporting last month, revealing that over 20 percent of purchases $2500 and under in the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) Welfare/Scam for the Wealthy and Crooked Private School Voucher program were unallowable items. Among those unallowed items in Harris’s most recent report include an above-ground … Read more
Arizona’s Legislative Republicans are advancing a strange agenda this election year. Among the policies they have put on paper this legislative session Not exactly the political and economic agenda to win hearts and minds this campaign season. In an opinion piece for Tucson.com, Arizona Legislative District 17 Representative Kevin Volk wrote that while Arizona House … Read more
I sat in for a presentation from SOSAZ for SecularAZ.org on the proposed citizen’s Initiative Petition effort (protectedaz.com) to limit the ESA Universal Voucher program here in AZ. I thought it an excellent discussion that addressed many questions about the planned ballot proposition. The proposed language (PDF Link) is pending legislative council legal review. SOSAZ … Read more
Rather than work with Democrats to reform the waste, fraud, and abuse in their billion-dollar welfare/scam for the rich and crooked Empowerment Scholarship Account Private School Voucher program, Arizona Legislative Republicans, in wanting to combat teacher protests and walkouts like what happened in the Red for Ed Movement, have launched a vindictive vendetta against public … Read more
Dr. Terry Ruiz, a Democratic Candidate for Arizona State Superintendent, promised to halt the automatic approval of destructive ESA school vouchers on day one. Speaking to LD18 Democrats, the 35‑year educator and former Glendale Community College president blasted Superintendent Tom Horne for refusing to rein in out‑of‑control voucher spending. She pledged to immediately stop the … Read more