The Tucson Unified School District is hemorrhaging $20 million annually as Arizona’s controversial voucher program diverts crucial funding away from public classrooms, according to Shelly Hartman from Save Our Schools. Speaking at a meeting of the LD18 Democrats on August 26, 2025, Hartman painted a dire picture, revealing that nearly 4,000 TUSD students are now … Read more
This budget, despite its temporary provisions to reduce income (but not payroll) taxes on tips and overtime, car loan interest, and a slightly expanded tax credit for qualifying individuals and families is another example of MAGA Republican Snake Oil that will not move the country forward, make our international competitors stronger, and pull people down. … Read more
“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
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
The way Republicans played the voucher game was a first clue here. When Arizonans overwhelmingly rejected the Republican desire to expand private school voucher-Empowerment Scholarship Accounts at the ballot box in 2018, the Doug Ducey Administration and their Anti-Public School Republican allies in the State Legislature went around the will of the people and passed … Read more