Purchasing Lingerie as an education expense? How about diamond rings? Or vacations at high end resorts? These are some of the questionable $2,000 or under expenses, uncovered by 12 News Journalist/Muckraker Craig Harris, that have been legally approved and processed through the state’s billion dollar Empowerment Scholarship Welfare for the Wealthy Private School Voucher Program … Read more
In a case that has waited seven years to be decided, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dewain Fox found that Republicans at the Arizona State Legislator have consistently violated, for years, the terms of the StudentsFIRST program, that provided for the constitutional funding for public school “capital needs — including buildings, buses, technology and books” … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed HB2867, a measure that, if it had become law, would have prosecuted teachers under the guise of saying they were promoting Anti Semitism. In her veto letter to Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro, the Governor touted her credititionals supporting the Jewish Community in the Grand Canyon State, including expanding Holocaust … Read more
What do MAGA Republicans, especially in the Arizona House at the State Capitol have against vulnerable children? This legislative session, they seem to take delight in threatening to cut off funding for poor children’s school lunches or assistance for kids with disabilities. How sick is that? Well, House MAGA Republicans, finally returning from an undeserved … Read more
Following a forceful response from Senate Democratic Leader Priya Sundareshan to the Republican behind the scenes scheming to “enshrine” their welfare for the rich entitlement program known as the Empowerment Scholarship Account Private School Voucher System in the State Constitution, Legislative Democrats gathered with public school activists to call attention to the MAGA ‘hijacking” of … Read more