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Parenting Arizona focuses on economic pressures, basic skills, relationships
An understanding of the U.S. education system can increase parent involvement, but it’s not the only factor. Economic pressures, basic parenting skills and parents’ relationships with their children must also be addressed, according to Julie Rosen, executive director of the parent-support group Parenting Arizona.
Feds OK Arizona’s process to freeze Medicaid unit
Arizona has received word from federal officials allowing the state to start implementation of the first phase of Gov. Jan. Brewer's plan to reduce Medicaid enrollment to help balance the state budget.
Arizona freeze on Medicaid awaits word from feds
Arizona officials hope for word Friday on whether they can start implementation of Gov. Jan. Brewer's plan to reduce Medicaid enrollment to help balance the state budget.
Arizona waits for word on partial Medicaid freeze
Arizona officials await federal clearance to take the first concrete step to reduce the state's Medicaid program — an enrollment freeze that starting Sunday would prevent new signups by people hammered by large health care expenses.
AHCCCS lawsuit on hold, but not for long
A liberal advocacy group said it will wait to see if the feds shoot down Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid reform plan before it files a lawsuit to do the same.
Arizona plan to cut Medicaid rolls headed to court
Gov. Jan Brewer's plan to help balance the state's budget by providing government-paid health care to fewer lower-income Arizonans is headed to court.
Policy in the budget — by the bills
As amended, the bill allows AHCCCS to adopt rules necessary to implement a program given available funds, providing the agency the ability to make changes to its services, eligibility and rates. Also, the bill contains an intent clause for certain transplant services that were eliminated last year to be funded, and a “notwithstanding” language that the Governor’s Office says gives the agency[...]
A balanced budget… for now: Threat of lawsuits could undo spending cuts
Fiscally conservative Republicans won the argument when the governor agreed to forego borrowing and other budget gimmicks to help shore up the state’s sagging revenues, and the budget-slashing proposal was also a vindication for legislators who saw themselves as lone voices in the wilderness, warning for many years that politicians’ appetite for spending would one day come back to haunt them. [...]
Brewer gave ground on education, but forced concessions of her own
Caught between her vow to hold the line on education funding and a Legislature determined to structurally balance the budget for the first time in years, Gov. Jan Brewer prodded lawmakers to make compromises that gave both sides most of what they wanted.
Arizona governor to act on new state budget
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is up against a deadline to act on a new budget that authorizes cuts in the state's Medicaid program while permitting restored coverage for medical transplants.
Budget language sparks confusion, accusations over transplant coverage
Confusing and roundabout language in the 2012 budget led to several days of Democratic sniping at Gov. Jan Brewer, who said the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System is on its way to restoring transplant coverage that was eliminated last year.
Ruling on K-12 fund could impact future voter mandates
A Superior Court judge may have given opponents of voter-mandated spending the leash they’ve been looking for to rein in big-spending initiatives for years.
