Ariz. voters will decide future of education funding in May

Arizona K-12 education is underfunded; that we can all agree on. The problem is agreeing on the way in which we increase funding. In the year 2000, voters approved Proposition 301, a six-tenths of a cent sales tax increase for K-12 education--but who wants to pay more taxes? Proposition 123 makes it possible to increase funding without raising taxes. Before you can understand what Prop 123 is and ...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the latest edition of Arizona state legislature involves the everlasting controversy of expanding school funding. According to azcharters.org the exact written purpose of the proposed bill, is that Prop 123 “adds education funding over 10 years to K-12 students and settles a lawsuit on K-12 funding.” This bill proposes to add a sum of $3.5 billion to...