After a flurry of cases were decided Tuesday by the Arizona Supreme Court, the November ballot is set and voters will be deciding the fate of eight different ballot measures. One result of the expedited appeals that the high court decided this week is that voters won’t have any direct say over how Arizona’s universal […]

Public school advocates hoping to rein in the Grand Canyon State’s billion-dollar universal private school voucher program told the Arizona Supreme Court that Republican legislators hope to “weaponize the popularity” of protecting money for military families to gut a citizens initiative — and rewire the separation of powers. Proposition 145 is ostensibly about protecting money […]

Republican legislative leaders deny that a measure they proposed was aimed at heading off a rival measure to regulate the state’s school voucher system – but say it would be constitutional even if it did.  Voucher opponents are preoccupied with a clause in Proposition 145 that they say will nullify Proposition 212, the Protect Education […]

A Republican-backed ballot referral that sought to amend the state’s constitution to ensure private school voucher funding for military families is protected was tossed off the ballot on Wednesday after a judge concluded that it unconstitutionally would also ban any future reforms to the voucher system. Maricopa County Judge Joseph Kreamer said in his ruling […]