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@CaptMarkKelly With all due respect, Senator @CaptMarkKelly stay in your lane. Education is a local control issue. As you know, there's nothing in the U.S. Constitution even mentioning education. Leave it to Arizona (and the other states) to decide...

Every child, in every zip code, deserves a fair shot at a good education. That's why I’m introducing legislation to repeal federal vouchers and keep public funds in public schools — so schools have the resources they need to do right by our kids.

See all these weapons? The IDF found all of them in a school in southern Lebanon. Yes, a school. Hezbollah, just like Hamas, is using schools, hospitals, and kindergartens as weapon storage. The mainstream media will never show you this. Share this.

@Wolfahontas @RealCandaceO @TuckerCarlson @megynkelly @RealAlexJones @ComicDaveSmith I've always been a huge fan of the @hughhewitt show. He's the best interviewer in the business and always has on knowledgeable guests.

Now guys forget about watching: @RealCandaceO @TuckerCarlson @megynkelly @RealAlexJones @ComicDaveSmith They are all done and dusted. Shitheads that just make you dumber watching them. If you want good podcasters, creators and debaters. These are the ones that will keep your minds sharp and also give you a good laugh: @BenShapiroShow @DanaLoeschRadio @FleurHassanN @triggerpod @TheMilkBarTV @DouglasKMurray @chicksonright @jay_fantom What others would you recommend?

@craighulse @KatieRatliefAZ @CSInstituteAZ I can get you K12 state spending over last 10 years - azjlbc.gov/units/allfundi… State Only spending increased from $5 billion to $9 billion. All funding sources from $10.3B to $16.2B. Worth noting, district schools currently sitting on a $7.8 billion surplus.

@KatieRatliefAZ @PaulDBoyer @CSInstituteAZ Do you guys have a chart of state spending over the last 10 years against district school enrollment over the same period of time?

At @CSInstituteAZ, we’ve been tracking the decline in public district school enrollment for a while, and reporting on the impact it’s had and the need to close district schools. But something is happening this school year that even we did not anticipate, and that I have seen almost no media reporting about: district enrollment in Arizona dropped by almost 30,000 students this school year. This is according to figures published by the Department of Education in January, and these numbers can change. If they hold this would be the largest drop in K-12 District enrollment since the pandemic, when the state lost 50,000 district students. Charter school enrollment has been basically flat for the last few years. So what is growing? The state’s ESA program, which grew by almost 17,000 students this school year. Meaning the remaining drop likely comes from changing demographics, again something @CSInstituteAZ and @GlennFarley14 have been warning about for some time. There are now about 825,000 kids in Arizona’s district classrooms. That’s an all-time low and lower than 2020-2021, during the peak of the pandemic. At its all-time high in 2009, there were 927,000 kids in district classrooms. According to CSI’s research, district schools have enough capacity for an additional 600,000 students in unused, taxpayer funded buildings, while total enrollment in district schools continues to decline – now even faster than our experts predicted.

She will regret blocking families to have the freedom to choose great schools for their children. The federal program was modeled after Arizona’s school tax credit program. #schoolchoice

Comical! Finch says taxpayers are 'waking up' to the ‘unacceptable machine’. Meanwhile, DVUSD gives only high-level totals (not line-by-line like SUSD), denied my PRRs, & Finch told the board they can't see financials unless you’re VP. We'd never know. Transparency for thee...

REMINDER: Last September, the Goldwater Institute released a report revealing the lucrative salary and compensation packages received by district superintendents throughout Arizona. Along with high base salaries, the report uncovered perks including car allowances, performance bonuses, generous personal and vacation leave banks that can be cashed out, and funding for private retirement accounts on top of their state pension benefits. The highest paid school superintendent was Tolleson Union High School District Superintendent Jeremy Calles, who makes nearly $500K per year in salary and perks! This is the same district that's teetering on the edge of a financial cliff from pushing massive construction projects (like a domed stadium) that could jeopardize the district’s long-term stability. The ONLY reason we know this is because Goldwater spent months doggedly pursuing these documents. We would have never known about this if we left it up to the districts themselves and our AWOL corporate media that intentionally avoids stories that make their Red for Ed pals look bad. Katie Hobbs has made it clear what side she is on. And it's not the side of transparency and accountability.

Good question Michael. Let's start with the words of our Lord Himself (John 6:28-29) - "Therefore they said to Him, 'What should we do, so that we may work the works of God?' Jesus answered and said to them, 'This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.' Now let's examine Scriptural references to: purgatory, indulgences, Infant baptism, treasury of merit, transubstantiation, the papacy, prayer to Mary and saints, the mass as a propitiatory sacrifice. Where does the Bible mention any of these?

Using children as human shields is a war crime. Full stop. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not just recruiting 12 year olds to die as child soldiers, they are now forcing children to stand in front of targets in Iran to “save” them! Under international law, this is a grave breach. It triggers criminal liability. There is no gray area here. A regime that turns children into shields is not protecting its people. It is sacrificing them. We have seen this before. During the Iran–Iraq War, children were sent across minefields as human mine finders, given “keys to heaven” and told martyrdom was their destiny. This is the problem of Islamist ideology. It glorifies martyrdom and weaponizes children. It is the same dynamic I documented in Jenin in my film The Making of a Martyr. It is the same in Iran today. This is what they export. Child abuse and murder.

🚨 HEADS UP, Arizona Arizona’s ESA program is under attack. Signature gatherers are pushing two competing ballot measures that would slap new regulations on ESA families if passed. One, backed by public school groups like Save Our Schools Arizona and the Arizona Education Association, pushes an income cap, fingerprint requirements, and heavy oversight. The other, from @SchoolChoiceNow (Fortify AZ), adds testing, curriculum standards, and more bureaucracy. Both threaten the parent-led freedom that makes ESA successful for over 100,000 Arizona kids. Call to Action: DECLINE TO SIGN either petition. Politely decline and tell your friends, family, and fellow ESA parents to do the same. Keep these measures off the ballot and protect real school choice! @AZWomenofAction #SchoolChoice #ESAs #Homeschool

From the most comprehensive AZ ESA spending study to date: 99% of ESA spending is proper educational purposes. Partisan activists desperate for clicks have misleading headlines…the 100,000 AZ families using ESAs have the facts on their side. edchoice.org/2026-is-arizon…

This is why I will always support universal ESA. "...the school system decided that his safety was less important than their paperwork." EVERY. SINGLE. CHILD. deserves a safe learning environment.

@arizona_sos @ArizonaEA Lie: #ESA $ is deposited into parent's bank acct. FACT: $ is deposited into an acct under the control of the STATE OF AZ and GAINS INTEREST for the state general fund.

88% of families who have ESA rollovers (unused funds can roll to a future year and/or college) say they try and spend less. This means more prudent purchases during K-12 AND more kids are going to college with less debt. Sounds good to me!! @StatePolicy @edchoice

“20% fraud” in Arizona’s ESA program? Not even close. That @12News claim came from a skewed audit of flagged accounts. Actual data from a random sample: 👉 1.9% unallowable spending 👉 0.3% fraud That’s not a broken program. That’s a narrative falling apart.

Superintendent Horne responds to irresponsible local journalism....sends letter of concern to Channel 12, KPNX-TV, citing statistical errors and gross inaccuracies in reporting.... azed.gov/communications…

School choice opponents want a monopoly. They want families locked into one system with no alternatives. But competition improves everything—including education. ESAs give families options and push all schools to improve. That’s why the program keeps growing. Families want choices, not monopolies.

Dear ESA Families, I hope this email finds you all doing well and enjoying the beautiful Arizona spring. As the end of the school year approaches, we hope the Empowerment Scholarships that your students have been awarded have helped them to grow academically and personally. This program is so critical to providing the freedom and choice that all parents need to best cultivate their children’s learning and development. Unfortunately, there are critics who attack the program in ways that are misleading, dishonest, and intended to undermine the ESA program. One of the most consistent claims by critics is that the ESA program is rampant with fraud, waste, and abuse. One news outlet has claimed that the rate of improper spending in the Arizona ESA program is 20 percent.  That claim is completely false. The 20 percent misspending claim was the result of an intentional or unintentional misunderstanding of transaction data and a failure to comply with basic principles of statistics. Here is the truth. The Arizona Department of Education used its experts to conduct a statistical analysis on the rate of unallowable spending in the ESA program. The selection of a statistical sample conformed to strict statistical principles. What the analysis found was that the ESA program is not rampant with fraud, waste, and abuse. Instead, only 2 percent of dollars spent in the ESA program is on unallowable items. Two percent is a far cry from 20 percent. Two percent of spending on unallowable items likely makes the ESA program exemplary in the lineup of state-run social spending programs. However, although 2 percent is a low unallowable spending rate, rest assured that the ESA team will pursue repayment for any unallowable spending that it identifies. The very low rate of unallowable spending in the program in conjunction with the program’s robust student enrollment growth is the clearest evidence that the ESA program is healthy and strong. We will continue to make this program the best program that it can be to serve all of your students’ continued educational needs. Superintendent Horne has publicly announced this great news in a press release, which you can read here: ADE Corrects False Claim regarding alleged 20% inappropriate ESA expenditures | Arizona Department of Education. Best Regards, John Ward ESA Executive Director

It’s also worth observing that just 52 cents of every dollar sent to Arizona district schools now makes it to classroom instruction according to the state auditor general.   Among the many uses of those funds outside the classroom: a $500,000 trip to Las Vegas by a school district that promptly cut bus services for students; a district spending $4,000 per person to send staff to Napa, California for a conference featuring wine tastings, a district spending $18,500 on “membership dues and for staff to attend golf tournaments,” and more.