A student-led group that tried to get lawmakers to enact gun control last year is refocusing on something more attainable.

Sen. Kate Brophy McGee this week vowed to bring back her bill imposing new rules on charter schools next year, but she said it faces a steep, uphill battle because Democrats want to campaign on the flaws of charter schools.

A budget proposal from Senate Republican leaders woefully fails to meet Gov. Doug Ducey’s biggest spending and saving priorities, and has isolated some rank-and-file GOP senators who’ve vowed to vote against it.

bill imposing new rules on Arizona charter schools is likely dead for the year after House Speaker Rusty Bowers declined to move it forward, saying it doesn't have enough support to pass.

Republicans in the Arizona Senate voted Thursday to impose new rules in charter schools over the objections of Democrats who said the legislation doesn't do enough to end problems.

Leaders of the Invest in Ed coalition, which tried but failed to get an income tax hike for education spending on the 2018 ballot, are urging lawmakers to reject a proposal to instead raise Arizona’s sales tax.

Three Republican lawmakers have reached a consensus on a plan to ask voters to raise a sales tax for education funding.

Advocates for a health insurance program for children from low-income families are pushing lawmakers not to let Arizona once-again become the only state to freeze enrollment in the program.

The Senate took the first legislative step toward better protecting some of the state’s vulnerable adults today.

Without dissent members of the Senate Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development approved legislation to put an extra $102.7 million into universities for the upcoming school year above and beyond what is now allocated.