Category: Arizona Legislature

HCR2037 – NEW MONEY FOR SCHOOLS

The bill would shift money currently given to a bureaucracy directly to schools. This is what our school districts will:

1. Referendum sends approximately $100m of new annual funding, directly into the schools, without raising taxes.
2. Eliminates nearly $10m in annual administrative, advertising, and lobbying expenses by First Things First.
3. Restores local control of the tax dollars by placing investment decisions in the hands of the locally elected school boards.
4. Insures that future tax dollars are invested in teacher salaries and reading programs, not billboards and contributions to advocacy groups.
5. Eliminates tax payer funded lobbyists, radio, and television advertising and uses those dollars for early childhood education programs.
6. Increases the amount of money spent on early childhood reading programs across Arizona by millions of dollars.
7. Puts Classrooms first, local school districts in the driver’s seat, and helps our teachers and kids.
8. Invests millions of dollars in protecting children from internet predators.
9. Restores local control and allows decisions to be made at the local level by elected school boards.

Please contact everyone in the “who to contact” column and ask them to vote yes or no, depending on your wishes.

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