Giving corporations a tax cut. Making it harder to vote. Mandating more restrictions on what teachers can teach. Expanding the amount of money rich parents can siphon off the public coffers so they can pay for their child’s private school tuition. Criminalize being homeless. Those are just some of the legislative proposals the MAGA Republican … Read more
Last week (January 31, 2023,) the Republicans on the House Education Committee resuscitated a revised attack on Critical Race Theory and Wokeness, sponsored by the chairperson, Beverly Pingerelli, by securing passage of HB2458, a measure that if it makes its way through the State House and Senate and, in some alternative reality, gets Governor Katie … Read more
Arizona Legislative Democrats and Pro-Public Education State Advocates have just about had enough of the bull fecal matter coming from the extremist wing of the Arizona Republican Party when it comes to the matter of suspending the Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL) so traditional public schools (charter public ones are exempt) can spend the money promised them in. … Read more
Last week, several of Arizona’s leading Democrats at the State Legislature: Assistant House Leader Jennifer Longdon, Representative (and Senate Candidate) Mitzi Epstein, Representative Judy Schwiebert, Representative Marcelino Quiñonez, and Legislative House Candidate and Geologist Stacey Travers held a presser calling attention to the existing water crisis plaguing Arizona, even after the passage of a landmark … Read more
It is time to stop shortchanging the Children of Arizona. It is time they were able to attend full-day kindergarten no matter what zip code they live in. It is time they were no longer crammed into larger classrooms. It is time they all had highly qualified and well-paid teachers in every class. It is … Read more