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(UPDATED) Are We in Kansas? Arizona Republicans Considering a Flat Tax That Could Take Funds Away from Schools, the Poor, and Police

This movie has been shown before. Fiscally ignorant Republicans, worshiping the altar of trickle down-supply side Reaganomics enact massive tax cuts for the wealthy, claiming the resulting cuts will be made up for in revenues brought about by people spending more money that will produce more jobs and higher sales tax and working/middle-class tax receipts … Read more

Reactionaries in the State Legislature Want to take us Back to the Dark Ages Again on Sex Education

Here we go again. Fringe reactionaries in the Arizona State Legislature have in essence, as Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman stated, codified state-sanctioned bigotry and scientific-medical ignorance by formalizing, through the passage of the Nancy Barto sponsored SB1456, the option for parents to not enroll or withdraw their children from sex education classes that … Read more

Arizona Public Schools Need to Know from the State Legislature Now What Money They Will Receive Next Year

The Coronavirus Pandemic has had a horrible effect on the Grand Canyon State’s education system. An as-yet-undetermined  learning gap has probably been created due to factors including: A digital divide that hit the most impoverished Arizona families at the early stages of school closures. Families opting to homeschool their children. The less than ideal but … Read more