Opinion from Laurie Roberts: It's time for Republicans in the Arizona Legislature to stop stalling and waive the spending cap on schools.
We are now at T-minus 33 days until nearly a million Arizona school children are faced with an early, disastrous end to their school year.So, well, you can see why I’m worried.State Superintendent Tom Horne on Thursday painted a dire picture of what will happen to Arizona’s public schools if our leaders don’t waive this year’s constitutional cap on spending. If they don’t allow the schools to spend $1.4 billion that’s already in their bank account.
That is, unless enough legislators just want to stick it to the public schools … and the children who attend them. ... And it brings you to today, when parents have to worry what will happen on April 1. That’s the day $1.4 billion is set to disappear from Arizona’s public schools.To avoid disaster, the Legislature must waive the spending limit by March 1 or every school district will be forced to cut its annual budgets by 17.5% on April 1.
last month. “Lifting taxpayer protections so government schools can spend endlessly without transparency is unacceptable.”“Hear us now: Schools will not lose out on the money we have allocated for them,”Parents will be purple, all right - with rage "As every parent knows, there comes a time when you have to say enough is enough," said the group's chairman, Rep. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek."Until systemic reforms to fix these harmful conditions for Arizona students are enacted, we must say enough."You want to see purple parents? Purple with rage, that is. Go ahead and play a game of political chicken with their children.
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