Teachers and other school staff were laid off. Arizona went from a teacher surplus to a teacher shortage. Class sizes increased. Educational programs were dropped.
School buildings and buses could not be maintained. Textbook adoptions were delayed and curriculum could not be updated. Districts had to pass bonds and overrides to pay for the essentials, placing an additional tax burden on local property owners. As common sense suggests, money matters for educational outcomes. For instance, poor children who attend better-funded schools are more likely to complete high school and have higher earnings and lower poverty rates in adulthood. We continue to enact large tax cuts, further reducing revenues.
Arizonans want more. Contact your elected officials today. Training Request Form. Arizona Department of Education ADE launched the Ready for School campaign, which ran from June through September , to encourage students and families to re-enroll in their public schools. The campaign used videos and advertisements to highlight the benefits of in-person instruction. ADE also created a hotline to support parents through the re-enrollment process. Addressing the Academic Impact of Lost Instructional Time and Expanding Summer and Afterschool Programs: ADE will implement evidence-based interventions that focus on three priorities: enrichment and reinforcement of learning; mental, behavioral, and physical health support for students and educators; and student and family re-engagement and support.
This team also has developed and implemented Principal and Supervisor of Principal professional learning academies to build leadership capacity in school districts and charter schools to provide support for students and educators. Launched the Return To School Roadmap to provide key resources and supports for students, parents, educators, and school communities to build excitement around returning to classrooms this school year and outline how federal funding can support the safe and sustained return to in-person learning.
Announced a new grant program to provide additional funding to school districts that have been financially penalized for implementing strategies to prevent the spread of COVID, such as universal indoor masking. Prioritized the vaccination of educators, school staff, and child care workers. Launched a series of equity summits focused on addressing inequities that existed before, but were made worse by the pandemic.
How Do I Find? As those options were added, the formula was not overhauled. Instead, it was tweaked to squeeze them in. Schools may get a bit more to cover students with disabilities, English-language learners or based on grade level. Separately, district schools get some additional funding through things like local bond and override elections or federal desegregation funds. Districts and charters get additional funds from other federal programs, local property taxes and tax credit donations.
Arizona's education system also provides funding to private schools — both directly and indirectly. Directly, the state provides tax dollars to parents through its Empowerment Scholarship Account program, which parents can then use to pay private-school tuition or other education expenses.
Doug Ducey and the Legislature this year passed a massive expansion of the program, but opponents this summer collected enough signatures to halt the expansion and put the issue on the November ballot as Proposition Senate Bill made all 1.
Prior to expansion, the program had been limited to certain students, including those with special needs, in poor-performing schools or from military families. Indirectly, the state gives dollar-for-dollar tax credits to individuals and businesses that donate to nonprofit organizations that then distribute scholarships to students attending private schools. Oversight of Arizona ESA school-voucher program 'almost a sham'. Arizona taxpayer-funded vouchers benefiting students in more-affluent areas.
Arizona private-school families cash in on state's tax-credit program. For schools, capital costs include a combination of hard capital such as building construction and soft capital such as textbooks, buses and computers. Districts can apply for hard capital funding through the School Facilities Board — charter schools don't qualify. Districts and charters get soft capital funds through the additional assistance fund. Currently, school districts are getting about 15 percent of what they were initially told they would get each year in what's called District Additional Assistance; charter schools are receiving about 85 percent in Charter Additional Assistance.
Several school districts, education groups and parents are now suing the state over that funding. The lawsuit could cost the state billions of dollars if it loses. Arizona statutes allow school districts either under desegregation court orders or agreements with the U.
Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights access to these tax levies to address mandates imposed through governmental oversight. Desegregation funding has been hotly debated at the Arizona Capitol.
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