🗳️ In AZ and across the U.S., private school vouchers are key election issue 💪 Join our efforts to #FlipTheLeg and elect pro-public education candidates up and down the ballot! 🍿Don’t miss events! Learn more in our latest #WeeklyEdReport 👉 bit.ly/September21EdReport

These public servants deserve your vote, AZ LD17. Former teachers and vets like these candidates understand leadership is about public service over politics, and they have secured @sosarizona.org’s venerable endorsement. Edgar Soto for State Senate BOTH Holly Lyon and Kevin Volk for State House

Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate after not having a clue what he voted for or where he is.

🍎🗳️ Join our #Vote4PublicEd Weekend of Action to knock doors and talk with neighbors about supporting #PublicSchoolProud candidates up and down the ballot. ✍️ Sign up to knock doors or make calls to help #FlipTheLeg: bit.ly/flip-doors

Hey, public education supporters! I’m raising funds for @sosarizona.org so we can educate voters and elect a state legislative majority that supports, values, and funds public schools. Any amount you can donate is much appreciated. Thank you! Please donate here👇🏼 secure.qgiv.com/event/2026tr...

School vouchers have become a major issue in elections across several battleground states, & AZ continues to be ground zero in the national debate. AZ's $1 billion ESA voucher program is a central issue in this year’s election for offices up and down the ballot from school board to the Governor.

Today’s headlines in a country run by Republicans led by Trump: -Pollute the air so corporations make more 💰 -Abuse human rights so corporations make more 💰 Let AI grow dangerously fast so corporations make more 💰 -Putin’s friend funds Don Jr’s wedding so a corrupt, rich family makes more 💰

Job posting - tenure-track assistant professor position The Dept of the History of Art & Architecture at Brown Univ seeks applicants whose scholarship focuses on histories of early modern (ca. 1400s-1700s) European art & architecture in the world. More info: apply.interfolio.com/191701

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."

🎉🗳️ Get ballot-ready while having fun and supporting public education! Join SOSAZ Network on Tuesday, Sept. 15th from 6:30–8:00 PM for our 4th Annual Virtual Trivia Night. Win gift cards to favorites like Changing Hands, Penzey’s Spices, and MORE! 🎁 ✍️ Register to play or donate: bit.ly/2026Trivia

🗳️The countdown is on: AZ ballots will be mailed ONE MONTH from today! You don’t want to look back after the election and think “I could have done more.” Every conversation, door knocked, & call made between now and Election Day will make a difference! Find a way to plug in: bit.ly/flip-doors

🔥“Prop. 320 focuses on one number: 60%. But the other 40% pays for transportation, counselors, campus safety, technology & other services that help schools function… AZ should demand efficient schools, transparent spending & better outcomes. But a spending percentage is not a student outcome.”

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.

💪🗳️We had an incredible #WeekendOfAction to help #FlipTheLeg! Thank you to all of the incredible volunteers who joined us to knock doors in AZ’s most competitive districts. This is how we will change the balance of power for the good of our state. ✍️Sign up to join us next weekend! bit.ly/flip-doors

😮 As the largest private school recipient of ESA vouchers, Gilbert Christian Schools charges families thousands in out-of-pocket tuition above an ESA voucher, pricing out low-income families opting out of providing disability accommodations like IEPs or 504 plans. www.12news.com/article/news...

🚨NEW: A 12News analysis revealed that at least $719M in taxpayer-funded ESA vouchers flowed directly to just 190 private & religious schools across AZ. hundreds of millions of our taxpayer $ are flowing into private institutions while AZ continues to rank 49th in the US for public school funding.

There is something so pathetically fitting about Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat becoming an empty vessel held by someone who just does whatever Trump tells them to

SOSAZ firmly opposes Trump's massive federal private school voucher scam and supports Gov. Hobbs' vetoes of the MAGA-led legislature's attempts to force AZ into the program. In AZ, we know what happens when voucher programs siphon billions of taxpayer dollars into private schools with no guardrails.

Arizona public school advocates are split over Trump's $1,700 'Big, Beautiful' school voucher

The Trump administration’s top education official visited Arizona to tout a new federal voucher program that will let Americans redirect their tax dollars to pay for school expenses – a program Arizon...

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🗳️ Election Day 2026 is 10 weeks away! 📆 Mark these important AZ voting dates on your calendar and be sure to share with friends and family. Then, check your voter registration TODAY to ensure your vote will be counted and your voice will be heard ▶️ bit.ly/azvr

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In a world with so many greedy billionaires, be a Dolly Parton!!!

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Nearly 500,000 Arizonans have lost access to food stamps, and that could also threaten a federal provision that allows some schools to provide free lunch to all students. 🎧 www.kjzz.org/the-show/202... 📷 Getty Images

Deranged and heartless

These people are Nazi fucks. They'll go down in history the same way.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4w ago

Deranged and heartless

Last spring, the district said it would name schools up for closure or consolidation by August

Which schools could TUSD close? Board will discuss plan Tuesday - AZ Luminaria

The Tucson Unified School District will discuss its plan for closing and consolidating schools amid declining enrollment at its Aug. 25 Governing Board meeting. Clarifying details should come in the board meeting presentation called “Reimagining Our Schools Together — A Community Engagement Plan for Elements of the Enrollment Stabilization Program,” according to TUSD’s agenda. The […]

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This is such a horrific vision of what education is 😭

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Linda McMahon on successful uses of AI in classrooms: "The first couple hours every day students really have on headphones, they're in front of their computers, they're getting their subjects fed to them...the beauty of that is the student almost has a one-on-one tutor...I have seen it work so well"