This is a good day for Arizona schools and public health safety in the Grand Canyon state. In a 17-page ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper ruled several state laws unconstitutional, including laws that prohibited mask mandates in schools, took away power from the Secretary of State, banned “critical race theory” in classrooms, … Read more
Supporters of public education, sound economic policy, and Democracy have less than a month to gather signatures for six ballot initiatives that would allow voters in 2022 to decide whether to repeal Republican-sponsored legislation that is designed to circumvent Invest in Education-Proposition 208, institute discredited fringe trickle-down economic tax cut policy, and obstruct Democracy by … Read more
There is, as EJ Montini headlined in an oped yesterday (August 19, 2021,) an Arizona Republican war on children. This is in addition to their separate wars on science, reality, economic sanity, and Democracy. Over the last several months, their operatives in the Legislature, the Governor’s office, and the Arizona Supreme Court have: Opted to … Read more
Across Arizona, today (July 17, 2021,) Education Activists set up petition signature sites across the state to save voter-approved public education funding increases from the flat tax-cutting-anti democratic efforts of Governor Doug Ducey and the Republicans in the State Legislature. Saying “Arizonans have been loud and consistent in their support for public education funding” with … Read more
With the Arizona Legislative Session over, citizen activists, stunned by the regressive taxation and voter suppressing measures passed over the last several months, are readying referendum petitions for Arizonans to sign that will appear on the 2022 ballot. Organizations like Stand for Children, Arizona Deserves Better, and Invest in Arizona (which includes groups involved in … Read more