70% of voucher users were already in private school meaning these are new costs!

Voucher lobbyists twist the truth to push privatization – but here are the FACTS:

✅ The average AZ ESA voucher is $10,349, not $7500.

✅ Vouchers will cost a total of over $1 billion this year alone.

✅ Vouchers do not save taxpayers money

The AZ GOP Chair has called for basic guardrails in the ESA voucher program to improve student safety and financial transparency. Yet MAGA Republicans like Jake Hoffman STILL refuse any reforms 😡

💸 Vouchers officially cost AZ taxpayers $1B per year — with zero accountability or transparency

🔮What does the end of the shutdown mean for K-12 schools?

📣 Find myriad ways to speak up and take action!

👉 All in the newest #WeeklyEdReport at bit.ly/Nov17EdReport

😲 Today, the yearly cost of Arizona's universal voucher program reached $1 BILLION.

$1 billion in taxpayer funds are being siphoned into an unaccountable program that primarily benefits wealthier families who always chose private schools.

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Happy Election Day, Arizona! 🗳️🎉 Today is the FINAL day to VOTE YES on all bonds & overrides to support Arizona students. If you still have your ballot, DO NOT MAIL IT — drop your signed ballot off at an official drop box or vote in person before 7pm!

🤯 “The cumulative shortfall to [AZ public] schools dating back to 2000 is nearly $7 BILLON… Judge DeWain Fox, a Ducey appointee, ruled the legislature does not follow its own laws that dictate minimum funding requirements for schools for facilities, renovations and maintenance."

🎯"If we're talking about competition, it's just not a fair competition…. we should all be playing by the same rules. [Voucher-funded schools] should be accepting every student, just like in a public school. You should have clear & transparent accountability for how you use the money.”

AG Mayes Demands Speaker Johnson Swear In Adelita Grijalva | The Lead with Jake Tapper CNN YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation.

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⚠️ Public opposition to AZ’s ESA voucher program is soaring, driven by alarm over the total lack of accountability. According to a new poll from EdForward, over 75% of AZ voters have serious concerns about the misuse of taxpayer dollars, including public money being spent on luxury items and travel.

🚨TAKE ACTION: Trump’s US Dept. of Education has decimated the office in charge of special education, using the federal shutdown as cover to remove supports and protections for students with disabilities.

📣 We must speak up NOW, make your voice heard: bit.ly/NoSPEDCuts

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⏰🗳️ TODAY is the last day to register to vote in Election 2025! You must be registered by midnight tonight (OCT. 6th) in order to #Vote4PublicEd on local bonds and overrides.

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Vouchers aren’t free❗ Swipe right to learn the real costs of Arizona’s universal ESA voucher program and its devastating impacts on AZ’s kids & families.

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Federal Education Advocacy Virtual Power Hour · Save Our Schools Arizona The US Dept of Ed is pushing new civics education designed by 40 partner groups closely aligned with the “MAGA” movement, including Prager U, Moms for Liberty, the Heritage Foundation, and Turning Poi...

☎️ TAKE ACTION: Join SOSAZ for a #NoCivicsTakeover Power (Half) Hour. Together, we’ll contact the US Dept of Ed and our members of Congress to urge them to reject the Trump administration's “patriotic” curriculum takeover.

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From Page to Power Book Club · Mobilize From Page to Power: A Justice-Focused Book Club by Save Our Schools Arizona Network 🗓️ Sundays, October 19 & November 16 🕕 4:00-5:00 pm on Zoom 📖 Next Read - The Privateers: How Billionaires Created...

💥📚SPECIAL GUEST! Join SOSAZ Network for our “From Page to Power” Book Club’s next selection, “The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers” launched by the author, Dr. Josh Cowen, on October 19th.

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🔊 MUST LISTEN: School vouchers are welfare for the wealthy. A scam built on the false promise of “school choice” that represents a massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top.

“12News is seeking ESA spending records from 2023-24 and 2024-25, when the combined spending for those @ years exceeded $1.5B, state records show… Yee & Horne have ‘delayed, denied & deflected’ straightforward requests for public records in violation of the AZ Public Records Law for records.”

🚨 BREAKING: @12News is suing AZ State Treasurer Kimberly Yee and Supt. Tom Horne over their failure to release public records relating to ESA vouchers.

🚨 URGENT: Trump’s proposed K-12 budget will be heard in the House Ed committee tomorrow! Contact the committee members NOW and urge them to reject this budget, which includes a cruel 27% cut to Title I funding for America’s most vulnerable students.

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🤯 MUST READ: A strip-mall charter school in Arizona was shut down by the state. Just a month later, the same owner was able to reopen with a new name as a voucher-funded private school — which also shut down with no warning in the middle of the school year.

💥 NEW: Supt Horne joined Sunday Square Off to justify his clawback of $600K out of $124M in fraudulent purchases as a process that is “working” for Arizona taxpayers — and to claim there is no reason to halt auto-reimbursement for any purchases under $2k.

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Major news for Arizona's public schools! “The Court concludes that the current public-school capital finance system does not meet the constitutional minimum standards established by the Arizona Supreme Court.”

Republicans think wealthy people shouldn't have to pay the full cost of expensive private school tuition but are just fine if working class people go hungry and go into medical bankruptcy or die because they can't afford health insurance