With her first year as the State Senate Leader in the Arizona Legislature, Senator Priya Sundareshan graciously took time to discuss the upper chambers sprint to the legislative finish line last week headlined by the passage of two bipartisan measure: a 17 billion dollar budget and a water security bill that will protect urban water … Read more
Another school year. Another $20,000,000 in free luxury expenses for private after school extracurricular activities that many of Arizona’s wealthiest, the people who do not need the money, legally fleece from the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Account appropriations that working and middle class taxpayers put into state coffers. Additional reporting from Craig Harris has … Read more
The pattern is getting predictable. Another week where MAGA Republicans at the Arizona State Legislature and across the country work to return the nation to the Gilded Age where Robber Barons dictated policy, the wealth gap between the top and the everyone else was prolific, public schools were not as popularized, reproductive freedom and voting … Read more
This article, written by Beth Lewis, Director of Save Our Schools Arizona and Nicky Indicavitch, Outreach Director of Save Our Schools Arizona, originally appeared in AZ Mirror on November 29, 2024. Once again, Arizona voters showed overwhelming support for local public schools in the 2024 election. School boards across the state saw many pro-public education … Read more
These are among the themes of Paradise Valley Board Member Kerry Baker’s students’ first policy agenda. A member of the board since 2023, Ms. Baker, an educator, and Paradise School District parent is running for reelection to ensure that all learners are supported and educational progress continues to move into the Twenty-First Century. Ms. Baker … Read more