Scottsdale Rep. Joseph Chaplik was one of 14 Republicans who voted against a bill to waive the expenditure cap that is stopping Arizona public schools from spending all the money
Mesa Rep. Jacqueline Parker was one of the 14 Republicans who voted last week against a bill to waive the expenditure cap that is stopping Arizona public schools from spending
The 45-14 vote provided the required two-thirds majority to give schools the ability to spend $1.54 billion lawmakers appropriated last year that would have put them over the constitutional spending limit.
The push to temporarily raise the state’s spending limit for K-12 schools and avoid nearly $1.2 billion in cuts that could close classrooms passed easily.
PHOENIX The Arizona House voted Tuesday to avert a shutdown of the state s K-12 public school system by approving a waiver of a constitutional cap on spen.