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Jan 22, 2025

Get serious about reaching the state education attainment goal

We need more than merely replacing budget cuts of the past. What’s needed in Arizona today is leadership — from the executive and legislative branches and from business.

Education classroom
Jan 17, 2025

Schools need more funding, not misplaced blame on administration

It is time to prioritize sustainable education funding that supports every aspect of our schools. Prop. 123 is not just a policy renewal — it is a commitment to Arizona's future. We must invest wisely and reject misleading narratives that undermine progress. Our students, educators, and communities deserve nothing less.

Education classroom
Jan 9, 2025

Hiking teacher pay a priority as lawmakers prepare to renew Prop. 123

With the general fund set to take on dollars previously provided by the state land trust through Proposition 123 at the end of the fiscal year, the goal of both the House and Senate ...

Dec 9, 2024

Arizona lawmakers must prioritize progress over partisan agendas in 2025

A thriving economy depends on a high quality education system.  We must collaborate across the aisle to develop pragmatic solutions for our most important resource, our people.

Oct 17, 2024

AZ Dept. of Ed launches STOP-IT Task Force to raise awareness about fentanyl’s dangers

Arizona’s Department of Education has introduced an initiative aimed at tackling the growing threat of fentanyl in schools. The School Training Overdose Preparedness and Intelligence Taskforce (STOP-IT) is educating students […]

Oct 14, 2024

Limited growth and increased spending needs pose tough choices for Hobbs

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs won’t have much room for new spending on education, water or just about anything else in the remaining two years of her initial term as Arizona’s […]

Arizona
Oct 9, 2024

Confronting cognitive dissonance – why Arizona leaders must bridge the disconnect between voter priorities and policy outcomes

There’s a disconnect in Arizona’s political landscape – one that goes beyond the partisanship and division that dominate headlines. Despite what it may seem, Arizonans across the political spectrum have […]

Steward Health
Sep 13, 2024

Senate committee to vote to hold Steward Health Care CEO in contempt

BOSTON (AP) — Members of a Senate committee looking into the Steward Health Care bankruptcy said they plan to adopt two resolutions next week to hold Steward CEO Ralph de […]

teacher, exodus, Horne, Arizona
Sep 3, 2024

New poll spurs Horne’s push for punishing schools that don’t support teachers

So why are teachers leaving the profession? Yes, there’s the perennial issue of pay. But a new survey released Tuesday by the state Department of Education of those who did […]

Aug 6, 2024

NCSL: Tax policy, K-12 education among top issues, fiscal analyst survey says

Along with state economic conditions and long-term liabilities, those topics are top of mind for legislative fiscal offices, a senior policy analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures said Tuesday.

Jun 7, 2024

Dems, union willing to wait until 2025 for school funding

The deadline to renew Proposition 123 is looming and there is no consensus between Republicans and Democrats on how much funding schools should receive and how it should be allocated. 

Apr 7, 2024

Budget negotiations heat up as Legislature slows down

Three months into the Arizona Legislature's annual session, lawmakers are ready to take some time off and go to a work schedule many would love to have -- just one day a week.

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