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Jewish-Canadian writer Sharon Kirsch visits Lithuania, the homeland of the grandfather she never knew, in this lovely, image-filled essay.

An effort to send Arizona’s massive new school voucher expansion to voters has fallen short.Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said in a tweet Friday morning that the petition from Save our Schools Arizona would not meet the minimum requirement of 118,823 signatures.At a protest at the state Capitol on Wednesday, Gov. Doug Ducey called on Hobbs to expedite the count.

On Friday, volunteers with Save Our Schools Arizona turned in their petitions, in an effort to refer a universal school voucher bill to the ballot, but questions remain about whether they collected enough signatures to get it done.Volunteers needed about 119,000 signatures to block a bill that makes every Arizona student eligible for state funds to attend a private or

Earlier this summer, the Arizona Legislature passed a universal school voucher expansion bill. Now, members of Save Our Schools Arizona are trying to refer the measure to the ballot to give voters the last word. When House Bill 2853 passed in June, Beth Lewis and other public school advocates were outraged. 

This week's Think Tank guests decided to do something about education legislation they didn't like. Save Our Schools Arizona was born.

Each winner receives $10,000. The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on November 23. 

Bitterly divided House panel OKs big school voucher bill BOB CHRISTIE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail PHOENIX (AP) — A bitterly divided Arizona House committee voted Wednesday to advance a massive expansion of the state’s school voucher program just over two years after voters overwhelmingly rejected universal school vouchers. Republicans called the measure already passed by the full Senate a lifeline for 600,000 low-income students who would become entitled to state funding for pri...