Arizona Is Dead Last (#51) In Classroom Instruction Funding When The State Has A $5.3 Billion Surplus

Above: Remember this from 2015? It was all a Big Lie. The Arizona Constitution requires the state legislature to enact a state budget before the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. In addition, the legislature really only had two priorites to address this year: (1) the school funding cliff that the last … Read more

Red for Ed: Never Forget

Our Lawless Arizona GQP Legislature Is Again Defying the Constitution, The Courts, And The Voters On Public Education

We have to take a trip with Mr. Peabody and Sherman in the WAYBAC machine to 2018 when this case first went to court (filed in 2017). School capital funding case goes to court, Governor Ducey only offers pennies on the dollar of what is actually owed: The other day I pointed out that Governor … Read more

A $5.3 Billion Surplus, And The Arizona Legislature Is Stiffing Public Education For Yet Another Unwarranted Tax Cut

Thanks to all the federal pandemic relief aid provided to Arizona by Congress, which Gov. Ducey and the GQP-controlled legislature want to redirect to corporations and their wealthy campaign contributors in yet another unwarranted tax cut – in direct defiance of the express prohibition in the federal legislation that it be used to backfill budget … Read more

AZ GQP Plans To Defy The Will Of The Voters With Special Session To Save Their ‘Flat Tax’ Giveaway To The Wealthy

The Arizona Daily Sun reports that the evil GQP bastards in the Arizona legislature who are the lickspittle lackeys of Arizona’s wealthiest residents are planning a Special session to replace huge Arizona tax cuts to circumvent a citizens referendum that thousands of Arizonans signed petitions to put on the ballot in November: Talks among Arizona … Read more

AZ Senate Can’t Find GQP Votes To Override Education Funding Cap, But Expands School Vouchers On A Party-Line Vote

Above: Classic David Fitzsimmons cartoon, still true after all these years. Michael Bryan posted on Tuesday, Arizona House Passes Resolution to Waive the AEL and Prevent the #AZFiscalCliff for AZ’s Schools: Today, 17 Republicans joined all 28 present Democrats to pass HCR 2039. Now the spotlight turns to the AZ Senate to pass the matching … Read more