Arizona school districts accused of illegally using tax dollars to oppose school choice law

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District is sending representatives to meeting where attendees will be encouraged to overturn the state's universal school choice law, violating a state law, according to a free market legal nonprofit, barring school districts from spending district money or resources, including personnel, to influence election outcomes.

Tom Joyce

September 5, 2022

Arizona school districts will violate state law next week by sending representatives to a meeting where they will encourage attendees to overturn the state's new universal school choice law, the Goldwater Institute alleges.

The free-market legal nonprofit sent a letter to the Arizona Attorney General's Office asking it to investigate and stop this behavior.

Arizona law bars school districts from spending district money or resources, including personnel, to influence election outcomes, the Goldwater Institute points out. This includes ballot initiatives and efforts to get questions onto the ballot.

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