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🤠 K12 Roundup - Horne’s flub, Trump’s DEI Snitch Line + 📣 Rally to #ProtectOurKids THIS Weds: bit.ly/Rally4AZKids 😡 #AZLeg updates Get it all in the #WeeklyEdReport @ bit.ly/March2EdReport

🚨 BAD BILL ALERT: #HB2640 (Gress) will incentivize selling public school campuses to private schools. This bill will hurt our neighborhood public schools — oppose ASAP and reach out to your House Reps! 👎 On RTS, use “My Bill Positions” to say NO to HB2640.

National Public Schools Week starts tomorrow! 🎉 It’s time to stand up for public education 💪📣 ROUND-UP: Catch up with ALL of the K-12 news at the federal, state, and local level in our newest #WeeklyEdReport @ bit.ly/February23EdReport

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Ready to learn more about the state of K-12 education in AZ? Want us to present to your organization or group? SOSAZ Network offers both virtual and in-person presentations hosted by expert & fun facilitators. 👩🏼‍🏫 Request our updated 2025 Roadshow presentation today: www.sosaznetwork.org/roadshow/

🚨BAD BILL ALERT: Sen. Bolick (LD2) attacks school bond measures, threatening billions in funding for AZ’s public schools. Urge the Senate Ed. Committee to vote NO on #SCR1028 TODAY!

💥 ACT NOW: Email your Senators & Representatives to stand up for public education! Urge them to protect the U.S. Department of Education and the millions of vulnerable students it serves. 📧 Send your message in minutes with our one-click email tool: bit.ly/SaveUSEdDept

😡 This week brought multiple executive orders aimed at dismantling public schools and targeting educators & students. 👏 Isaac public schools will remain open! 👍👎 Learn about K12 bills in committee this week. Read the latest #WeeklyEdReport for more: bit.ly/February2EdReport

With 12 Trump nominee votes to date, here are the Dem Senators who have betrayed their role in the opposition party the most. All voted for 8 of the 12 nominees. Fetterman -PA (worst offender; voted for 8, but also missed 3 votes, & only voted no on Hegseth) Shaheen -NH Hassan -NH Gallego -AZ

Repost they said. Okey dokey 👍🏼

Read our statement on President Trump’s Executive Order to advance school vouchers & privatization.

🏆Know an incredible AZ educator, staff member, or school leader? Nominate them for our Champions of Public Education award!! bit.ly/CAPSnom25 🎟️🎉 Awards will be given out at the 2nd annual Celebration of Arizona’s Public Schools on March 29th — find more information & buy tickets @ bit.ly/CAPS2025

🗣️ SPEAK UP for Arizona kids! Use #RequestToSpeak NOW to urge lawmakers to vote YES on HB2213, which provides free school meals to all students currently receiving reduced price lunches. This bill will be heard tomorrow, 1/28 — make your voice heard @ bit.ly/RTSazleg

💻 Email your lawmakers TODAY to let them know that you support SOSAZ’s policy priorities to #FundOurSchools and reform Arizona’s out-of-control ESA voucher program! 📧 Our easy-to-use email tool makes it simple to make your voice heard: bit.ly/FundAZSchools

💬 In her State of the State address, @GovernorHobbs made it clear that public education remains a priority and that legislators must work across the aisle to bring fiscal responsibility to the universal ESA voucher program. Read our new #WeeklyEdReport for more K-12 news @ bit.ly/January19EdReport

Data shows that Arizona’s universal ESA voucher program disproportionately benefits the wealthy while diverting much-needed funding from local public schools 😡 🗞️ Read our latest blog for details: bit.ly/Vouchers4Rich

💥SOSAZ’s 2025 K-12 legislative priorities lay out a clear plan to give AZ’s 1 million public school students the education they deserve. #FundOurSchools Read our priorities and then join us in our fight for strong public schools across Arizona: sosarizona.org/volunteer

In her State of the State address, Gov. Hobbs called for income caps on AZ’s universal ESA voucher program, which has become a coupon for the wealthy that diverts desperately needed funds from local community schools. 📊 Get the data in our latest blog: bit.ly/Vouchers4Rich

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🔮 The #AZLeg is BAAAACK… and we dust off our crystal ball to preview what’s to come for K-12 schools 🍿and lay out our list of Legislative priorities ✅ ▶️ Be the first to read our very first #WeeklyEdReport of 2025, and subscribe to our *new* Substack while you’re at it 🤓 bit.ly/January12EdReport

Because it needs to be said, despite propaganda being spread about the terrorist in New Orleans being an immigrant, he was in fact born and raised in Texas and was a US Veteran. Their hopes in using this brutal terror attack to demean immigrants has ended in total failure.

Happy New Year Peeps 🦋🎊🎆🎉✨️

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Guess who wants this photo banned from the internet? Please like and repost! 😉😘

REMINDER: As President Biden is overseeing an orderly, peaceful transfer of power with the incoming administration, Trump helped orchestrate this violence, and has vowed to pardon these attackers on day one. These Presidents are NOT the same.

NEW: The Education Law Center released their 2024 “Making the Grade” report this week. Once again, AZ remains FAR behind the national average for K12 funding, ranking 49th once again 📉 😞

Our billionaire fake President Elon Musk just single handily ruined Christmas for millions of people who won’t get paid when the government is closed.

Let’s remind everyone of the promises made!

🤔 DID YOU KNOW? Arizona’s ESA voucher program costs have skyrocketed to over $830M per year — and growing. These massive costs are diverting money that could (and should!) be used to lift Arizona’s public schools out of 50th place in the nation for funding and resources. #AZVouchersbytheNumbers

😡 Supt. Horne is fast tracking payments for 85,000 voucher reimbursements — with zero oversight. The ADE’s new “pay now, ask questions later” policy will open the floodgates for far more #voucher fraud and abuse. Get all the details and more in our #WeeklyEdReport at bit.ly/December16EdReport

✨ SAVE THE DATE: We are thrilled to announce our 2nd annual Celebration of Arizona’s Public Schools, featuring Special Guest Jess Piper! @piperformissouri.bsky.social 🎫 Get your tickets today: bit.ly/CAPS2025. For educator and student discounts, go to “Unlock” and type in EDUC8 for 50% off!

🗞️ The Weekly Education Report is back! This week: 👻 Indictments for massive fraud in the ESA voucher program 😞 Roosevelt shutters 5 community public schools 🍎 AZ voters want the #AZLeg to fund public schools Read our 🆕 #WeeklyEdReport @ bit.ly/December9EdReport for these stories and more!

💙 #GivingTuesday is a few days away, but we hope you’ll join us TODAY in the fight to ensure every AZ child has access to a high-quality public school in their neighborhood. Your support will make a difference in our efforts to protect public schools in 2025! Donate: sosaznetwork.org/donate

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🎯 OPINION: ”It’s time for the Arizona legislature to get serious about funding our public schools, the centers of our communities. It’s time to stop playing political games with education — or every single one of us will pay the price now and long into the future."

I am such a believer in this. Down-ballot is the way. It’s also how we build a sustainable future of good leaders and infrastructure to elect and support them, as well as the movements they represent. We don’t just need strong candidates. We need strong organizers, managers, CoS, grassroots, etc.

🚨 NEW from Politico: “No-Limit Vouchers Are Blowing Up Arizona’s Budget”

Hi — Mark Cuban, Can you please buy MSNBC? Like… now? Thanks. Sincerely, Team Not Cool With Fascist Fucks

💥TONIGHT @ 6pm! Come be in community w/ #TeamSOSAZ at our virtual Statewide Vol Huddle. We'll debrief election results & their impact on public education & what we do next to move forward for AZ's kids & educators. Register ASAP to avoid delays in getting the link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...?