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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 […] The post Federal Budget, Federal Vouchers, and US Dept Funding Freezes — What’s the Impact on K-12 Schools? first appeared on Save Our Scho...| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
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 […] The post Federal Private School Voucher Program Aims to Privatize & Dismantle Public Education first appeared on Sa...| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
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 […] The post Are Universal Vouchers Causing School Closures in Arizona? first appeared on Save Our Schools Ari...| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
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 […] The post What Does the US Dept. of Education DO — And Why Does it Matter? first appeared on Save Our Schools Arizona Network.| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
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 […] The post Arizona’s Universal ESA Vouchers Are Welfare For the Wealthy first appeared on Save Our Schools Arizona Network.| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
Your 2024 Ballot: A Guide to Voting on Propositions Arizonans’ November ballots will contain 13 statewide questions labeled as “Propositions.” Normally, ballots contain just a handful of these measures, but this year the state legislature placed 11 measures on the ballot . Learn more about those measures here. In addition to the usual swath of […] The post Your 2024 Ballot: A Guide to Voting on Propositions first appeared on Save Our Schools Arizona Network.| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
Your 2024 Ballot: A Guide to Voting on Arizona Judges Like any branch of government, Arizona’s judiciary plays a critical role in supporting public education — and in upholding Arizona’s Constitution, which requires the legislature to maintain a “general and uniform” public education system. Arizonans’ unique ability to choose whether or not to retain judges, […] The post Your 2024 Ballot: A Guide to Voting on Arizona Judges first appeared on Save Our Schools Arizona Network.| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
Your 2024 Ballot: A Guide to Bonds and Overrides It’s more important now than ever for voters to educate themselves on the local ballot measures that fund our local public schools, typically called “bonds,” “overrides,” and “budget continuations” in Arizona. Ballots will be mailed across Arizona on Wednesday, October 9. The Importance of School Funding […] The post Your 2024 Ballot: A Guide to Bonds and Overrides first appeared on Save Our Schools Arizona Network.| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
Voucher Accounts Balloon as State Budget Starves In June, Arizona lawmakers slashed funding for K-12 public schools, higher education, water and transportation due to an ongoing budget crisis driven by universal vouchers and tax cuts for the rich. Lawmakers refused to touch the ESA voucher program despite the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars […] The post Voucher Accounts Balloon as State Budget Starves first appeared on Save Our Schools Arizona Network.| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
1 in 10 K-12 Dollars Funding Vouchers in AZ New voucher funding numbers show staggering inequalities in how Arizona’s K-12 dollars are allocated, revealing that 1 in every 10 of Arizona’s K-12 state aid dollars are now funding vouchers. Supt. Horne recently released new numbers from the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) breaking down the […] The post 1 in 10 K-12 Dollars Funding Vouchers in AZ first appeared on Save Our Schools Arizona Network.| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
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Governor Tim Walz: A Champion for Public Education| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
What Do We Know About Kamala Harris’ Vision for Public Schools? | Save Our Schools Arizona Network
Project 2025 contains sweeping reforms for K-12 education across the US, stripping protections for LGBTQ+ students, attacking civil rights, and implementing universal private and religious school vouchers across the US. | Save Our Schools Arizona Network
Vouchers & Christian Nationalism: The Agenda to Dismantle Public Education| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
The nonpartisan Grand Canyon Institute (GCI) recently released a shocking new report showing that the projected net cost of Arizona’s universal ESA voucher program is equal to at least half of the state’s budget deficit this year — and about two-thirds of next year’s projected deficit. Arizona faces an estimated $1.3 billion budget deficit in both those years combined, with an additional $500 million shortfall that must be covered by this year’s budget (which must be passed by June...| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
Arizona’s Voucher Program is the Least Accountable in the US| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
When Religious Extremists Take Over, Vouchers Rule and Bodily Freedom Dies| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
"Ghost Students”: ESA Voucher Fraud Scandal| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
All eyes are on Arizona as data around the negative impacts of its universal ESA voucher program continues to mount. Study after study shows the broad majority of universal ESA vouchers serve as subsidies for higher income families who could already afford private school tuition or homeschool expenses.| Save Our Schools Arizona Network
