Arizona school vouchers that are pulling $1 billion away from students in K-12 public schools are here to stay, whether we like it or not. And, unfortunately, they’ll stay with no real oversight that taxpayers like me might expect, leaving parents with remarkable discretion over how our public money is spent. What are we supposed […]
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 […]
A ballot measure that would ask voters to institute sweeping regulations to Arizona’s billion-dollar universal school voucher program is effectively dead. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against the backers of Proposition 212, upholding a lower court’s decision that disqualified a number of voter signatures in support of the measure, putting it below the […]
Whether voters this fall will get a chance to weigh in on a ballot measure to implement sweeping new restrictions on the state’s billion-dollar universal school voucher program hinges entirely on whether the Arizona Supreme Court buys an argument from the initiative’s backers that a trial court judge’s plan for determining valid signatures means some […]
The Arizona Supreme Court shot down a request from Republican lawmakers to preserve their summary of the voucher-regulating Protect Education Act in a voter education pamphlet, ruling that the description violates state law because it tries to sway voters against the initiative. The Protect Education Act, which will be on November’s ballots as Proposition 212, […]
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 […]
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 […]
