“Education is economic development and when we have a strong and thriving education system, we will have a strong and thriving economy.” “Let’s build together, Arizona” Believing that “public education must be strengthened” for the million children that attend the state’s public schools, Dr. Teresa Leyba Ruiz has launched her campaign to become the next … Read more
Cutting funding for children with disabilities. Stigmatizing innocent trans kids on what bathrooms they can use. Not fully funding public schools. Not advancing bills that would pay for school meals. The MAGA Republican War on Vulnerable Children Continues at both the Arizona State Legislature and across the nation. A day after the announcement that the … Read more
Another day with the country sliding towards an American Dark Age and what Rachel Bitecofer calls a Trumpcession. Halving the United States Department of Education staff. Revoking $20 billion in Environmental Protection Agency Climate Change Grants. Cutting one billion in programs that provide school meals and food security. Playing tariff war with Canada and tanking … Read more
$957,000,000! That is the amount of federal education dollars that Arizona public schools could see vanish if the Musk/Trump/Vance Central Committee and MAGA world get their wish to unilaterally and Unconstitutionally abolish the United States Department of Education and the federal grant dollar programs that agency administers. According to the Education Law Center, of the … Read more
Nauseating and Sickening were descriptors applied to previous articles on Arizona MAGA Republicans protecting welfare for the rich programs like the Empowerment Scholarship Account private school voucher program and tax cuts for the wealthy while screwing over funding for children with disabilities. In reporting from AZ Central, House Appropriations Chair David Livingston who railed against … Read more