Charlie Martin

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Charlie Martin

Charlie Martin

@MartinCharlieAZ

Arizona School Finance - Public Finance and Budgeting - Financial Analysis - Personal opinions

Phoenix, AZ Katılım Eylül 2024
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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@Tjhawk07 @NicoleCantelme @CraigHarrisNews True, but the account into which money is deposited does not change the source of the funds (taxes vs parent payments). Private schools likely deposit tuition paid from taxpayer ESA funds and additional out-of-pocket tuition payments from parents into the same bank account.
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Tiffany Hawkins
Tiffany Hawkins@Tjhawk07·
@MartinCharlieAZ @NicoleCantelme @CraigHarrisNews Just to help you out…. The vouchers show the bank account as the Maricopa County Treasurer. So as the AG Op. 10-003 says, “Although the District uses only the non-taxpayer sourced funds, these funds are deposited with the county treasurer and constitute public funds.”
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Tiffany Hawkins
Tiffany Hawkins@Tjhawk07·
Since @CraigHarrisNews won’t do line-by-line on public schools, I had to. Deer Valley USD hides their line-by-line spending like it’s classified. I dug into our peers to see the real hypocrisy. Let’s see some real scrutiny on admin discretion with our money. Thread incoming….
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Tiffany Hawkins
Tiffany Hawkins@Tjhawk07·
@BellaNo75933255 @alegria_do @CraigHarrisNews @12News They use the revenue from code 525 to pay for the millions in student travel. Don’t let them mislead you it’s only from candy bar sales. ESA participants do not have the option to create revenue off the system.
Tiffany Hawkins@Tjhawk07

@CraigHarrisNews @12News @RealTomHorne @AZTreasurerYee Does this student travel shock you? Here is DVUSD student travel since 2022: 2022-2,493,849.84 2023-2,750,877.90 2024-3,091,364.54 2025-3,962,317.78 2026-399,021.46 so far in 3 meetings Total: 12,697,431.52 Travel locations like: CA,AZ,TX,NY,NV,UT,OH,TN,FL,GA,DC, and HI

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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
Governor Hobbs’s Proposition 123 renewal plan should be a no brainer for Arizona. It increases funding for schools with no tax increase and begins to address years of school building underfunding. State legislators opposing the plan are hurting the schools that they represent.
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SuchandSuch@SuchSuchand·
@CraigHarrisNews should like this one. Public schools buying shampoo/conditioner, bounce houses, and sports bras. When should we expect the @12News story on this?
Tiffany Hawkins@Tjhawk07

ESA families are banned from purchasing bedding, Yeti/Stanley tumblers or gifts. But…. SUSD did just that in 2025! Districts treat public money like a personal Amazon carts with zero audits or headlines. ESA gets clawed back for crumbs. @CraigHarrisNews….. 🦗 🦗 🦗

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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@NicoleCantelme @Tjhawk07 @CraigHarrisNews I understand that view, but think that most disagree. A recent news article was revised to remove the “taxpayer dollars” label from funds raised by optional fees.
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Brahm Resnik@brahmresnik

Republican plan would send license plate fees to Turning Point USA to memorialize Charlie Kirk, per @ArizonaMirror. (Correction: Earlier version of this story incorrectly described funding source.) azmirror.com/2026/02/20/rep…

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Nicole Cantelme
Nicole Cantelme@NicoleCantelme·
@MartinCharlieAZ @Tjhawk07 @CraigHarrisNews I disagree. It’s all taxpayer money—that’s how our government entities are funded. There isn’t a separate originating source. If I choose to make a donation to the drama club or buy popcorn at a high school football concession stand—it’s still taxpayer money.
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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@NicoleCantelme @Tjhawk07 @CraigHarrisNews In a sense, but definitely not equivalent to ESA funding. Someone recently called special license plate fees collected by ADOT “taxpayer funds”, but I think that most agree that optional fees for a specific purpose are different than funds from sales/income/property taxes.
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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@Tjhawk07 @NicoleCantelme @CraigHarrisNews Are you certain that these purchases were made with taxpayer funds? There should be an account code associated with each purchase that shows which funds were used. The first three digits are the fund. For example, 530 and 525 represent donations and fees paid by parents.
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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@realnickkupper @azcapmedia I think @azcapmedia is still referring to just getting on the ballot, but for voter initiatives rather than candidates. I believe that school board candidates are also not able to use the online signature portal to get on the ballot.
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Nick Kupper
Nick Kupper@realnickkupper·
@azcapmedia I would argue that getting your name on a ballot is one thing, but getting yourself into office is much more significant and thus requires higher scrutiny of who is actually voting.
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Capitol Media Services 📢 Telling it like it is
Capitol Media Services 📢 Telling it like it is@azcapmedia·
So here's the question. If this online signature portal is so good and doesn't require signature verification, why won't lawmakers extend that to the initiative process? Or is it that some don't want to make it easier for people to make their own laws?
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The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru
The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru@Garrett_Archer·
ESA growth is mostly coming from lower income zip codes. Overall proportion still favors higher income zip codes. Oct. to Dec. 2025 vs. 2026 zip code median income: ESA growth rate Under $46k: +22.9% $46k - $75k: +20.5% $75k - $105k: +19.6% $105k - $134k: +15.5% Over $134k: +9.9%
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Nason Lollar
Nason Lollar@nasonlollar·
Public schools are a public good. And so many of them serve their communities first and foremost. It is frustrating to see the “government” monicker given to these schools by many choice advocates. They seem to want to tear down the institution even though so many of these schools serve as the lifeblood of their communities. Thanks for pointing this out @MichaelPetrilli
Michael Petrilli@MichaelPetrilli

Please don't call my local public school a "government school" fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@matthewladner Our funding formula in AZ is a great foundation for this. I think it was a mistake to add existing private school students to the formula due to limited state resources, and parts of the formula still need to be leveled between districts and charters, but we’re not far off.
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Matthew Ladner
Matthew Ladner@matthewladner·
Take all K-12 funding, distribute it into accounts with a weighted formula, allow voluntary association and exchange to flourish.
Matt Schaefer@RepMattSchaefer

Imagine public schools asking parents/students what classes they want and parents having limited vouchers to pay for it! (Like colleges responding to market demand) Swap a percentage of the public schools’ automatic formula funding for parent responsive voucher funding. Stay in your public school and get customized non-core curriculum programs. Teachers that step up get paid well. This would be a reduced voucher and balanced against what schools already get in property taxes + state support. I proposed legislation that would allow public schools to participate in the voucher program if they respond to parental requests. There is merit to Troy Mooney’s proposal.

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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@realnickkupper @RinoLivesMatter Getting to 90% from public school would take 350,000+ more students switching from district/charter schools to ESAs. So far, after four years of universal eligibility, less than 30,000 have switched. The ESA program will never come close to breaking even as is.
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Nick Kupper
Nick Kupper@realnickkupper·
@RinoLivesMatter Well from a fiscal perspective, once 90% of ESA enrollment is made up of students who used to go to public schools then the state will break even financially. If that enrollment exceeds 90% it will actually save the general fund money. Currently we’re a little over 50%.
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His Excellency Lord of District 4
His Excellency Lord of District 4@RinoLivesMatter·
I’m not following this too closely, but three obvious questions come to my mind: 1. What is the AZ Auditor General’s Office saying? Have they been presented with these findings? 1/3
Craig Harris@CraigHarrisNews

Regarding some ESA parents spending tax dollars at @Disneyland and around the globe. 1. We found these documents in the 5.5 million ESA transactions we obtained after suing @RealTomHorne and @KimberlyYeeAZ for public records dating to 2022. Cont.... 12news.com/article/news/i…

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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@CraigHarrisNews @JoeDanaReports @12News Since there are no asset tracking or asset disposal requirements for the ESA program, it’s not clear how ADE would enforce the handbook prohibition on reselling items like this.
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Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin@MartinCharlieAZ·
@realnickkupper @willhumble_az @azcopinions Why not post your corrections/clarifications to the op-ed here? Better to have public policy conversations in public and accessible to all than behind closed doors. No expertise in this area, but don’t understand why you wouldn’t just defend your bill in a public forum.
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Nick Kupper
Nick Kupper@realnickkupper·
@willhumble_az @azcopinions So I’m guessing you don’t actually want to have a conversation with me about this @willhumble_az ? You’d rather just post your uneducated op-eds which try to scare the people into submission?
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Will Humble
Will Humble@willhumble_az·
Want lice? 'Medical freedom' bill is for you then | ⁦@azcopinions⁩ #HCR2056 'Proposed 'medical freedom' bill sounds nice, but it would mean more lice, more hepatitis A, more disease in Arizona classrooms, preschool & work places.' ➡️ azcentral.com/story/opinion/…
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@Tjhawk07 @NicoleCantelme @CraigHarrisNews @BellaNo75933255 @alegria_do @12News @SuchSuchand @matthewladner