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New Children’s Action Alliance Leader January Contreras discusses Her Legislative Priorities for 2024

January 24, 2024January 24, 2024 by David Gordon

Former Biden/Harris Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services, Attorney, Public Interest Advocate, and 2018 Democratic Arizona Attorney General Nominee, January Contreras is having a “wonderful” time as the new head of the Arizona Children’s Action Alliance (CAA.) A 35-year-old bipartisan organization dedicated to the … Read more

Governor Hobbs Releases Her Budget Proposal; Democrats Rejoice; Republicans Whine

January 14, 2024 by David Gordon

Let the budget games begin. On Friday afternoon, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs released her Proposed Budget for the Fiscal Year 2024/25. Among the highlights of the budget are: Please click here to view the full proposed budget from the Governor’s office. With the state showing, thanks in part to decreased revenues from Ducey era tax … Read more

Public School Education Coalition Asks Legislature to Work with Governor Hobbs to Overcome $4.5 Billion Deficit in K-12 Funding

March 30, 2023March 21, 2023 by David Gordon

A coalition of organizations that support increased funding for Arizona Public Schools has written a letter to Republican leaders in the State Legislature asking them to work with Governor Katie Hobbs and Democrats in a bipartisan fashion to erase the $4.5 billion deficit in K-12 education funding. Coalition Letter AZ’s Classroom Crisis The organizations comprising … Read more

(UPDATED)For MAGA Republicans at the Arizona State Legislature, Banning Books and Helping the Rich is In; Helping Poor Children is Out

March 14, 2023March 14, 2023 by David Gordon

As writers on the Blog for Arizona and others in the mainstream media have noted over the years, you can tell a lot of what a person is for by what they propose in their budget and single pieces of legislation. The MAGA reactionary Republicans at the Arizona State Legislature are no exception. Read what … Read more

Half Way There: The Arizona House Passes a Suspension of the AEL

February 7, 2023 by David Gordon

The Arizona State House of Representatives, in a 46 to 14 vote, secured a suspension of the Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL) for this year by passing Republican David Cooks HCR2001. The AEL is the archaic 1980s legal mechanism, that if allowed to be applied in March, would deny traditional public schools the right to spend … Read more

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