It doesn’t go well for kids in public schools
A court case out of Arizona strikes a familiar theme: Republican-run legislatures tend to shortchange public schools.
After a 14-day trial in late June and early July, Judge Fox concluded that the state shorted public schools at least $2.2 billion for maintenance and construction costs between 1998 and 2013 — and likely billions more in the years since, after policymakers scrapped a formula for building repairs in favor of far less funding for competitive grants.
Arizona also ranks 49th in the nation in per pupil funding.
