Well, the proof is out. The financial disaster that the ill-advised and unaccountable Empowerment Scholarship Account (E.S.A.) expansion that public school educator advocates, sane policy experts, and informed media outlets predicted would drain state coffers and benefit (by a great margin) rich families has become a reality. In reporting from Mary Jo Pitzel at AZ Central, … Read more
A coalition of organizations that support increased funding for Arizona Public Schools has written a letter to Republican leaders in the State Legislature asking them to work with Governor Katie Hobbs and Democrats in a bipartisan fashion to erase the $4.5 billion deficit in K-12 education funding. Coalition Letter AZ’s Classroom Crisis The organizations comprising … Read more
As writers on the Blog for Arizona and others in the mainstream media have noted over the years, you can tell a lot of what a person is for by what they propose in their budget and single pieces of legislation. The MAGA reactionary Republicans at the Arizona State Legislature are no exception. Read what … Read more
The Mayor of the fifth largest city in the country has had a busy first ten days in March meeting with important members of the Phoenix Community and advancing causes that will move the local area forward. On March 1, Mayor Kate Gallego and City Council passed an ordinance designed to prevent income discrimination against … Read more
Here we go again. Another year. More drama as the lines are drawn between Democratic and Republican budget proposals. Actually, wait a minute. Republicans, divided between the reactionary branch and the MAGA reactionary we have no interest in governing wing of their party have not presented their version of a budget for the next fiscal … Read more