Legislature
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Readers react to Arizona measure targeting trans kids
Arizona’s HCR 2003 targets trans students and their access to school facilities like restrooms. Here’s what readers think of it.
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Breaking: ‘Protect Education Act’ turns in 400,000+ signatures to SOS
The measure only needed 255,949 valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
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The son of a farmworker is now leading Arizona House Democrats
Oscar De Los Santos says Democrats need to stop bowing to billionaires.
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Arizonans continue to struggle as Democrats’ affordability bills stall at state capitol
Arizona’s 2026 legislative session is nearing a close, but what has been done to make the state more affordable? Not much, Democrats say, and they say Republicans are to blame.
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How Arizona lawmakers can bring back bills even after they fail
State lawmakers introduced a record number of bills this legislative session, but that doesn’t mean more can’t come along through a commonly used tool at the Arizona Capitol.
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Teachers say they feel politically attacked as education funding hangs in limbo
Vital education funding faces another year without renewal, and state lawmakers can’t agree on a plan to revive or replace it.
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As Arizona schools face funding and teacher shortages, Republicans advance measure attacking transgender students
An Arizona Republican Senator continues pushing legislation attacking transgender and nonbinary youth.
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Arizona Republicans push to ban teacher strikes and target union organizing
As GOP-backed measures move to curb education union organizing and penalize strikes, Arizona teachers are fighting back.
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Arizona teachers push ballot measure to end school voucher fraud
Voters may decide the fate of Arizona’s controversial universal school vouchers program as an accountability initiative heads for the November ballot.
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Arizona Republicans look to boost Trump’s mass deportation agenda
Republicans in Arizona’s State Legislature have introduced bills that would aid the president’s aggressive and violent crackdown on immigrants.
