For Star subscribers: Another year, another signature-gathering effort to defend public schools in Arizona. This time, however, the effort to block a new referendum got an early start.
You'll see them in front of libraries, near shopping centers, knocking on doors, carrying clipboards and often wearing the familiar red T-shirts from the old days of 2018.
People are also reading… If you think you've seen this before, you have. Some of the same people collected signatures in 2017, which led to voters overwhelmingly rejecting that era's voucher program in 2018. Opponents organize earlyThis time, the main difference is that they've encountered organized opposition to the signature-gathering itself, not just in the courts after the fact.
The Goldwater Institute helped them put up a website, and the American Federation for Children provided signs and materials. Goldwater, of course, is the libertarian-conservative think tank based in Phoenix. The federation advocates for school choice and voucher programs, and was founded by the billionaire DeVos family, of which former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is a member.
Accurso and Smith both described their movement as representing"the parents," as if Arizona parents were unanimous in support of them. But of course that's not the case. They probably represent a passionate, small minority, including a high percentage of home-schooling families, who also stand to gain up to about $7,000 per child per year if the voucher program remains law.
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