PUSD Preps Big Voter Requests

By Erin Brassey for The Glendale Star  Peoria Unified School District will ask voters to approve a 13 percent budget override and $125M bond in November.  The 13 percent override will continue to provide important funding for the district, said Michelle Myers, PUSD’s CFO.  Voters approved the current 13 percent override in 2015. But an increase to 15 […]

MUSD Looking at Potential 2020 Election Impacts

Source: inMaricopa.com  Maricopa Unified School District wants to open its second high school in 2022.  The district is contemplating the size and curriculum of the school, how much of the cost will remain after the School Facilities Board grant and the possibility of seeking a bond. The district’s last attempt at bond failed with voters.  Meanwhile, the district is examining the […]

ADOT Predicts Drop in Hwy Project Revenue

By Tasha Anderson for AZBEX  The estimated financial impacts of COVID-19 on the State Transportation Improvement Program over the next five years may be as much as $540.4M, according to Kristine Ward, Chief Financial Officer for the Arizona Department of Transportation.  Ward presented the current revenue reports for the Highway User Revenue Fund (HURF) and Regional Area Road Fund (RARF), as well as the estimated […]

Maricopa County 2017 Bonds & Overrides

By Ricardo Cano for The Arizona Republic Voters in 22 Maricopa County school districts will decide in the Nov. 7 election whether to approve bonds and overrides – temporary, local property-tax-funded measures districts say they use to help offset longstanding cuts in state education funding. This will be the first election in which all such measures in the […]

$20M to Help Fund New Great Hearts School

By Rebekah L. Sanders for The Arizona Republic Great Hearts Academies, a charter-school network with roughly two dozen sites in Arizona and Texas, plans to open a new campus in Maryvale in 2018. The school, which will be located near 47th Avenue and Camelback Road, will grow to serve children in grades 3-12 who graduate from Maryvale Preparatory Academy, […]