Eureka! There may be a light at the end of the tunnel to avert the financial doomsday for the Grand Canyon state’s traditional pubic schools. On Arizona’s birthday, the Republican and Democratic leadership of the Arizona State House and Senate have offered bipartisan measures in both chambers to lift the spending limit cap limit. If … Read more
While Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman was coming before the Senate Education Committee to tell them it was vital to suspend and/or repeal the State Expenditure Spending Cap on traditional public schools, State House Speaker Russell Bowers was telling Sunday Square Off’s Brahm Resnik that school districts have no reason to worry about … Read more
Consuelo Hernandez is the President of the Sunnyside Unified School District Governing Board and a Candidate for a Legislative District 21 Arizona State House seat. It never ceases to amaze me that in times of greatest need – this Governor and the Trump Republicans in the legislature fail to do their basic job. Whether its … Read more
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman did not care for Governor Doug Ducey’s most recent State of the State Address. In an oped column for AZ Central, Superintendent Hoffman, still on maternity leave caring for her newborn daughter, penned an effective on point rebuke of Mr. Ducey’s address to the Arizona State Legislature. Unlike … Read more
Governor Doug Ducey and his office have released his last proposed budget. Like previous budget proposals, there are good components to it. There are increases (some paid for by American Rescue Plan dollars: the funds Mr. Ducey calls Socialist) in K-12 funding, water augmentation, road infrastructure, and kinship care. Veterans and their spouses could receive … Read more