Top legislative leaders took their first steps Monday to ensure Arizona public schools don't have to slash more than $1.1 billion from their budgets in just two weeks.House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R-Mesa) introduced legislation for a one-time waiver of what's known as the "aggregate expenditure limit” a voter-approved cap on public school spending the Arizona Education
Top legislative leaders took their first steps Monday to ensure Arizona public schools don't have to slash more than $1.1 billion from their budgets in just two weeks.House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R-Mesa) introduced legislation for a one-time waiver of what's known as the "aggregate expenditure limit” a voter-approved cap on public school spending the Arizona Education
The state House voted 45-14 Tuesday to waive the expenditure cap that is in the way of Arizona public schools being able to spend all the money they already have for this fiscal year.All Democratic representatives voted in favor of the resolution, while 14 Republicans opposed it without explaining their decision.
State records show the Arizona Senate has spent more than half a million dollars on legal bills while running its widely criticized election review.Senate Republican leaders have so far spent more than $550,000 on private attorneys in 2021 and 2022, according to records dug up by the blog AZ Law. Many of those attorneys fees have gone to the firm defending the Senate against