Schools
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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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A new concert venue is coming to this unexpected metro Phoenix city
The Hilltop Theatre and Concert Hall is a 750-seat performance venue with a proscenium stage, a chandelier lounge and a second-floor gallery.
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Arizona GOP rushes last-minute ballot measure to kill voter-driven voucher reform
If approved by voters, HCR 2048 would make it impossible for voucher reform to pass in 2026.
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They don’t have children in school anymore. They’re collecting signatures anyway
Ruth Lambert and Jean Cooper decided to become pro-public education advocates despite very different education experiences.
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Readers react to Deer Valley school board member’s Nazi salute
We asked our newsletter readers for their reactions to an Arizona school board member raising a Nazi salute in a meeting. Here’s what they said.
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This director of a Phoenix resource center is trying to fill the gaps federal Republicans left with SNAP cuts
A Phoenix family resource center is absorbing the fallout from federal SNAP cuts, with demand up 20% and 70 fresh-food bags now disappearing within 30 minutes of distribution.
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Arizona teachers see SNAP cuts and voucher costs hit the same families
One person gathering signatures said she sees ballooning voucher costs and plummeting SNAP enrollment as evidence that some politicians do not view public services as worth funding.
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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.
