Group submits petitions to halt expanded school-voucher program. Please see related stories
By Howard Fischer • Capitol Media Services • Arizona Daily Star
PHOENIX — Foes of giving out more vouchers of tax dollars to let children go to private and parochial schools filed petitions Tuesday with more than 111,000 signatures to force the issue to a public vote.
The group Save Our Schools contends that SB 1431 will drain dollars from an already underfunded public school system.
“Class sizes have swelled to almost 40 children per teacher,” said Beth Lewis, a fifth-grade teacher in the Tempe Elementary School District.
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