Lawmakers are again debating a one-year waiver of Arizona's constitutional limit on what schools can spend.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — State lawmakers took the first tentative steps to ensure public schools don’t have to shut down before the end of the academic year.
State schools chief Tom Horne, a Republican like a majority of the lawmakers, urged committee members to approve the measure to avoid what he said would be “an incredible disaster.” Rep. David Cook, R-Globe, sponsor of House Concurrent Resolution 2001 to waive the limit, said shuttering schools should not be acceptable to fellow Republicans.
That has to do with the fact that legislators last year, with a state budget surplus, provided additional money to public schools, restoring many of the cuts made in the prior decade. In fact, Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, told Capitol Media Services on Tuesday he will not bring the waiver to the floor unless a majority of his 16 Republicans agree. So that gives just nine of them a veto.The most recent report by state Auditor General Lindsay Perry says Arizona schools, on average, spend 55.3% of their dollars on instruction. But she said that figure does not paint the whole picture.
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