Arizona’s public education system has maintained its dead-last ranking in a survey of all 50 states for the second year in a row, with crowded classrooms, along with its worst-in-the-nation high school graduation rate, contributing to the state’s poor rankings.
How fitting a place for Kirk to be buried.
Also how ironic that I actually thought highly of ASU, Arizona’s largest and most prestigious university with some of the top biology and engineering courses in the USA, before they partnered with OpenAI.
PHOENIX — 12News has sued state Treasurer Kimberly Yee and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne to obtain public records regarding how tax dollars have been used to fund Arizona’s education voucher program since it was significantly expanded in 2022.
The suit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, claims Yee and Horne have “delayed, denied and deflected” straightforward requests for public records in violation of the Arizona Public Records Law for Empowerment Scholarship Account records.
Meanwhile, some public schools in Arizona have had to shutdown due to lack of funding or consolidate with other schools in order to have enough resources to function for an entire school year. Teacher pay has been stagnant, and they have had to reduce school staff numbers. Teachers are having to perform extra duties trying to fundraise trips and events for their students that are no longer funded.
I’m shocked that running public education education as a form of-profit private business has somehow made it worse.
