Arizona SOS beat the Koch brothers and DeVos money in court!
Arizona SOS gathered enough signatures to force a referendum on the expansion of vouchers in the state, and the Koch brothers underwrote a legal effort to knock the referendum off the ballot. Democracy frightens them.
Today, the Arizona Supreme Court Rules that the referendum can go forward.
The vote would not kill the voucher program but block the Legislature’s efforts to expand it, thus siphoning more money from the public schools that enroll most students.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Apparently it is easy to over turn this. As I understand it, the Legislature will repeal the affected legislation then refile the original. Requires another petition drive to put “new” legislation on ballot
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But in the meanwhile, the voucher expansion won’t happen.
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I read a lot of ed reformers and according to the science of ed reform, vouchers are wildly popular and everyone can’t wait to “escape” public schools and head to a private school. As we all know, too, private schools are better than public schools, mostly because they’re not full of icky public school students. No one wants their child in school with THEM.
Wonder why they’re fighting so hard to deny the public a vote?
Should pass in a landslide.
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Koch bros eat dirt now that they lost in court. The Koch bros are moving to Russia to work with Trump on destroying the Russian educatio system
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one change in your first sentence perhaps logical: “according to the science FICTION of ed reform…” 🙂
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The Koch Brothers want to make Arizona their “reform” model state. It is great to see that democracy and the will of the people get in the way of these plutocrats.
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