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 […]
Gov. Doug Ducey Unveils $12.3B State Spending Plan
By Maria Polletta, Andrew Oxford, Lily Altavena and Rachel Leingang for The Arizona Republic Buoyed by even healthier than expected state revenue projections, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey unveiled a $12.3B spending plan for the next fiscal year that places two of his longtime priorities — public safety and education — front and center. The plan boosts spending by more than $600M above […]
Is Lack of Oversight at Alhambra Leading to Wasteful Contracts?
By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Inefficient contracts… Lack of oversight and documentation… Resistance to market trends… These are a few of the issues plaguing one of the poorest public school districts in a state that Governing.com has ranked 49th in per pupil funding as recently as June 2018. Forty-five million dollars in bond […]
K12 Procurement Changes Coming Courtesy of SUSD
By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Last month the Red for Ed budget bill caught the local building industry completely off-guard when it included a last-minute amendment that has far-reaching impacts on public K12 procurements. (AZBEX, May 8th) This week I had the opportunity to sit down with the Speaker of the Arizona House […]
Ducey Proposes to Reverse K12 Funding Cuts
By Ricardo Cano for The Arizona Republic Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday announced a plan he says would “reverse Recession-era cuts” to Arizona school funding and help settle a $1B lawsuit over a decade of cuts to school capital funding. Surrounded by more than 50 Arizona school superintendents, Ducey said his budget this year will include $100M […]
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 […]
Schools Sue State Over Construction Funding
By Howard Fischer for Capitol Media Services Just a year after settling one education funding lawsuit, state lawmakers face a new one, this time over what challengers say is their failure to build and properly maintain public schools. The lawsuit is based on claims that the Legislature is effectively ignoring a 1994 ruling by the […]
AZ House Budget Rejects Ducey Ed. Proposals
By Alia Beard Rau for The Arizona Republic An initial budget proposal from Republicans in the Arizona House focuses available new funds on teacher raises and school capital costs, rejecting Gov. Doug Ducey‘s proposal to parse it out over more than a dozen education-funding programs. House Republicans propose $219M in new ongoing and one-time funding for […]