A man on a mission, Phoenix Based NBC 12 News Reporter Craig Harris, in the tradition of the muckrakers at the turn of the last century, has spent the last several months broadcasting to viewers the many troubling issues with the Arizona’s one billion dollar Empowerment Scholarship Program (ESA)-Private School Voucher-Welfare for the Rich Program. … Read more
Another school year. Another $20,000,000 in free luxury expenses for private after school extracurricular activities that many of Arizona’s wealthiest, the people who do not need the money, legally fleece from the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Account appropriations that working and middle class taxpayers put into state coffers. Additional reporting from Craig Harris has … Read more
With the support of MAGA “Fake Elector,” “Troll Farm” and Hobbs obstructionist Jake Hoffman, Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee has declared her candidacy to become the next Superintendent of Public Instruction and overseer of the billion dollar a year Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)-Arizona Private School Voucher-Home School Indoctrination and Welfare for the Wealthy Program. Yee, … Read more
Over the last week, 12 News and AZ Central Investigative Reporter Craig Harris has broadcast a series of reports on the now billion dollar a year Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)-Private School Voucher Program that MAGA Republicans would like to formalize in the State Constitution. The apparent conclusions from Harris’s reporting (there are still more … Read more
In a move that Arizona House Democratic Leader Oscar De Santos called “Shady” on social media, MAGA Republican Leadership at the State Legislature, when they realized there was bipartisan support for an amendment offered by Representative Julie Willoughby to a legislative proposal to provide supplemental funding assistance to children with disabilities, decided to stack the … Read more