Funny how it is okay for Republicans to plan budgets on their own in Arizona and other states where they control all levers of government but not Democratically run states or Washington D.C. Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature are working on a 2021-2022 fiscal budget that, wait for it, may provide one billion dollars … Read more
Yesterday, the Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) released a statement highlighting the many fine legislative proposals designed to help Arizona’s children and families that did not get a hearing at the Arizona State Legislature this year. Among those proposals were: HB2416 from Legislative District (LD) 17 Representative Jennifer Pawlik to increase funds to the Arizona Child … Read more
The Governor and Arizona State Legislature should be: Spending education dollars on helping traditional and charter public schools bring all of their ventilation systems up to standards that could help combat the spread of the Coronavirus. Funding an increase of the staff of the Arizona School Facilities Board so proper inspections can be made of … Read more
Here they go again. Like monsters from B Movie franchises that never die ( like Jason, Freddy Kruger, and Candy Man) School Voucher measures are brought back to life year after year by Republican Legislators in the Arizona State Legislature. The latest incarnation of voucher expansion is Senate Education Committee Chairperson Paul Boyer’s Senate Bill … Read more
Since the passage of the Anti Voucher expansion Proposition 305 Ballot Measure in 2018, the reactionary members of the Arizona State Legislature have continued to push the envelope on proposed measures to allow families to spend state taxpayer money, through Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA’s) on private (mostly religious) schools. These fringe legislators have: Pushed bills … Read more