This budget, despite its temporary provisions to reduce income (but not payroll) taxes on tips and overtime, car loan interest, and a slightly expanded tax credit for qualifying individuals and families is another example of MAGA Republican Snake Oil that will not move the country forward, make our international competitors stronger, and pull people down. … Read more
In a move probably prompted by a friendly Trump regime in Washington and the perception that the United States Supreme Court may be about to grant access for religious charter schools to receive public monies in Oklahoma, Arizona MAGA Republican legislators are seeking to formalize the existence of Empowerment Scholarship Private School Accounts in the … Read more
By issuing today’s Executive Order to hollow out and dismantle the United States Department of Education, Felon in Chief Donald Trump is fulfilling multiple desires in continuing his and his MAGA movement’s war against knowledge, history, science, the American Dream for minorities and poor children, the disabled, Democracy, and public education along with enriching his … Read more
$957,000,000! That is the amount of federal education dollars that Arizona public schools could see vanish if the Musk/Trump/Vance Central Committee and MAGA world get their wish to unilaterally and Unconstitutionally abolish the United States Department of Education and the federal grant dollar programs that agency administers. According to the Education Law Center, of the … Read more
The constant theme in Governor Katie Hobbs’s third State of the State Address before a joint session of the Arizona State Legislature was the need to work together to fulfill Arizona’s Promise. Whether invoking the legacies of Arizona political stalwarts like Sandra Day O’Connor, Bruce Babbit, Raul Castro, Barry Goldwater, and John McCain or saluting … Read more