Over the last couple of weeks, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is giving a lack of transparency and Mccathyite tactics new meaning at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE.) First, he and his Director of the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA,) Christine Accurso sent an approximately one-page memo to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) … Read more
Get ready for Alt-Fuel Fiasco 2.0. That reference (already made by legislators like Arizona Democratic Senate Leader Mitzi Epstein and former Democratic House Leader Andres Cano) to the turn-of-the-century alternate fuel state tax credit program that blew up Arizona’s revenue coffers may be repeated again with the predictable funding explosion of Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (E.S.A) … Read more
Fresh off announcing, with Governor Katie Hobbs, their intentions to prosecute fraudsters who victimized thousands of Tribal members and urban homeless individuals by confining them in illegitimate behavioral health centers and fleecing the State Medicaid program AHCCCS, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes appeared on the Bram Resnick Sunday Square Off Show earlier today (May 21, … Read more
MAGA Extremist Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature, otherwise known under the deceptive title of the “Freedom Caucus” are at it again. This time, their more extreme members, led by Jake Troll Farm-Fake Elector Hoffman, are making life harder for deaf and blind children who attend the Arizona Schools for the Deaf and Blind. Let … Read more
Well, the proof is out. The financial disaster that the ill-advised and unaccountable Empowerment Scholarship Account (E.S.A.) expansion that public school educator advocates, sane policy experts, and informed media outlets predicted would drain state coffers and benefit (by a great margin) rich families has become a reality. In reporting from Mary Jo Pitzel at AZ Central, … Read more