This week’s worst person in Arizona is current Arizona Senator, likely hopeless candidate for Secretary of State, and definitely creepy sex pest, Michelle Ugenti-Rita. While explaining her inexplicable vote to pointlessly deprive our children of over a billion dollars in school funding, she called public education supporters (mainly teachers) watching from the gallery “educational terrorists”. Never … Read more
Breaking news, the Senate just passed HCR2039 in this first day of crossover week. This is excellent news, but, of course, it only waives the cap for this year, and this issue will probably arise again next year. I’ll update this post as more information becomes available. For now, just be aware that the AZGOP … Read more
A couple of hours after educators and activists held an event at the State Capitol sponsored by the Arizona Education Association (AEA,) the State Senate, in a 23 to 6 vote, approved the suspension of the State Expenditure Cap on the Grand Canyon State’s public schools. A week after being one Republican short of getting … Read more
It is time for the Arizona State Senate “to stop playing a billion dollar game of chicken with kindergarten students.” Those were among the closing remarks delivered by Arizona Education Association (AEA) President Joe Thomas as AEA activists, educators, parents, children, and public servants gathered at the House Lawn at the Arizona Legislature to call … Read more
SOSAZ weekly education report dropped today: An urgent matter before the AZ Leg now is the attempt by the AZGOP to expand privatization of our educational dollars via a massive expansion of vouchers, a policy roundly rejected by AZ voters in Prop 305: In the Senate, SB1657 (an all-but-universal expansion) and SB1707 (which makes Gov. Ducey’s voucher … Read more