Newly signed Arizona law allows community colleges to offer 4-year degrees
Governor Doug Ducey has signed into law a bill, SB1453, allowing community colleges to offer limited four-year college degrees.
Posted at 12:05 PM, May 04, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-05 11:42:57-04
PHOENIX â Governor Doug Ducey has signed into law a bill, SB1453, allowing community colleges to offer limited four-year college degrees.
The governorâs signature is the climax of years of efforts by advocates who worked to find alternatives to what critics argue is the expense for residents to get four-year degrees at Arizonaâs three universities.
âWe think about it all the time and how much itâs going to cost by the time they re of age,â said Christa Jones.
Mark Finchem
Upping the stakes in what has become a political feud over the 2020 election, Rep. Mark Finchem (R-Oro Valley) is suing a Democratic lawmaker charging she smeared his name.
The lawsuit filed in Yuma County Superior Court says that the Rep. Charlene Fernandez (D-Yuma) knew or should have known that there was no evidence linking either Finchem or now former Rep. Anthony Kern (R-Glendale) to the Jan. 6 riot and breach of the U.S. Capitol. Yet Fernandez, along with other Democratic lawmakers, sent a letter to the FBI and the Department of Justice asking that they investigate the pair who were in Washington for the event.