Here we go again. For the third year in a row, MAGA Republican Legislators at the Arizona State Capitol, the individuals who have mostly not met a private school ESA voucher expenses they did not approve of, appear to be dragging their feet on fixing the Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL,) the mechanism that, if not … Read more
I wonder if anyone else has noticed how petulant and oppositional-defiant the MAGA crew running the Arizona Legislature are behaving? Given control of the public purse they’ve run the state into an almost $2 billion deficit in just one year with unpopular and out-of-control voucher scheme for the wealthiest in Arizona. Now they are demanding … Read more
Over the last few days, the organization Save Our Schools (SOS) Arizona has launched a state budget education campaign blasting the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Program (ESA)and the Ducey-approved Flat Tax for blowing a hole (about $1.8 billion) in the fiscal budget, making the Grand Canyon State the financial equivalent of Kansas from the … Read more
Acclaimed Historian and Documentary Filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball, The Roosevelts, and The U.S. and the Holocaust) warned college graduates during a commencement address at Brandeis University on May 19, 2024, about the perils of eliminating or watering down history instruction as well as not voting for Democracy in the 2024 Presidential elections. … Read more
In a room filled with Arizona Education Association (A.E.A.) Union Members and supporters for an Educators for Biden/Harris event at the Renaissance Hotel in Central Phoenix, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden wowed the audience as she made the case for a second Biden/Harris Term. After the crowd was warmed up by stirring introductory speeches from … Read more