For anyone following the fight over public education in Arizona, this has been a consequential year. The Protect Education coalition mounted a valiant effort to get Prop 212 on the ballot. But the initiative ultimately failed to qualify after a well-funded pro-privatizers managed to challenge enough petition signatures to defeat the will of over 420K … Read more
With District Four Phoenix City Councilwoman Laura Pastor retiring from her seat, eight candidates are campaigning to succeed her. Five participated in a forum on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, to discuss various issues facing the district in the fifth-largest city in the country, including affordable housing, public safety, community-public school partnerships, and how to address … Read more
With Democratic electoral prospects in the upcoming Midterms on the rise, more congressional and legislative district seats are coming into play. A State House seat in Arizona Legislative District (LD) 27, an area that includes parts of Peoria, Glendale, and Phoenix, is one of those coveted seats. Running after nearly scoring an upset victory in … Read more
Arizona’s education funding system looks a lot like a shortened game of Monopoly. In Monopoly, the player who acquires the most valuable properties gains an advantage that compounds over time. In a shortened version of the game, the properties are dealt at the beginning, and some players simply get a better hand. Arizona’s school districts … Read more
Well, it is not quite the Trump and MAGA Republican fecal matter that Haitians are eating the dogs in Ohio, but Arizona Treasurer and Republican Superintendent of Public Education Nominee Kimberly Yee is making a good faith effort to emulate that to appease the MAGA base at campaign events with remarks that school board members … Read more