Your 2025 Ballot: A Guide to School Bonds and Overrides This November, 36 school districts across Arizona are going out for special bond, override, and budget increase measures. But what are “bonds” and “overrides”? With ballots already mailed out across the state, it’s more important now than ever for voters to educate themselves on the […]
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Vouchers Aren’t Free: Who’s Footing the Bill? Voucher pushers like to say the money “follows the child” and argue that vouchers “save taxpayers money,” but after three years of universal vouchers in Arizona we know that vouchers aren’t free — and the impacts are costing kids and families, as universal ESA vouchers have destabilized Arizona’s
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Federal Budget, Federal Vouchers, and US Dept Funding Freezes — What’s the Impact on K-12 Schools? Public schools around the country have been thrown into uncertainty and chaos as threats of federal funding cuts have become a reality. The congressional budget passed last week makes massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, which will limit services
Federal Private School Voucher Program Aims to Privatize & Dismantle Public Education This week, Congress will hear the long-awaited federal voucher program called “Qualified Elementary and Secondary Education Scholarships” — formerly known as “ECCA” — in the US House Ways & Means Committee. The federal voucher program is designed as a tax credit voucher, which
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Are Universal Vouchers Causing School Closures in Arizona? Arizona’s decades-long refusal to adequately fund public education and its $1 billion universal ESA voucher program are creating large budget shortfalls for districts across Arizona — and many are responding with draconian measures like school closures. As ESA voucher costs grow and school closures mount, the connection
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What Does the US Dept. of Education DO — And Why Does it Matter? In recent weeks, the Trump administration has made moves to dismantle the US Dept. of Education. The newly confirmed US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon called doing so the “final mission” of the department on her very first day. But what
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Arizona’s Universal ESA Vouchers Are Welfare For the Wealthy Arizona’s universal ESA voucher program, once touted as a solution for educational inequity, has instead become a coupon for the affluent, diverting hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars away from the public schools on which low-income families continue to rely. In 2022, after nearly a decade
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