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March 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM

Weekly Ed Report: 🔥AG Mayes Files Suit to Save the US Dept. of Ed🔥

🔥AG Mayes Files Suit to Save the US Dept. of Ed🔥 View and share our Substack with 3 friends! ¡Lea el Semanario en español! This week, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined a coalition of AGs from 21 states to file a lawsuit to stop Trump’s dismantling of the Dept. of Education 💪  The lawsuit…

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March 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM

Weekly Ed Report: Trump Signs Executive Order to Abolish US Ed Dept

Trump Signs Executive Order toAbolish US Ed Dept View and share our Substack with 3 friends! ¡Lea el Semanario en español! On Thursday, President Trump, fulfilling his campaign promises and the directives of Project 2025, signed an executive order to dismantle the US Department of Education, which…

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March 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM

Statement on Trump’s Executive Order to Dismantle the US Dept. of Ed

Statement on Trump’s Executive Order to Dismantle the US Dept. of Ed Today is a harrowing and infuriating day for American students, parents, and educators. President Trump, fulfilling his campaign promises and the directives of Project 2025, has signed an executive order to dismantle the US Depart…

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March 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Did you miss our Townhall w/ Congressman Stanton??

Hi John, Last night, SOSAZ hosted an Emergency Townhall with Congressman Greg Stanton about the dramatic cuts to the US Dept. of Ed and federal K-12 dollars under the Trump administration. We heard strong remarks from Rep. Stanton about the critical importance of stepping up for public education an…

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March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Weekly Ed Report: Trump ED Cuts, Congressman Stanton Townhall & More

Trump’s Massive ED Cuts 😡 View and share our Substack with 3 friends! This week, the Trump administration made massive cuts and layoffs in the US Dept. of Education — stifling its ability to support public schools and our students. The Trump administration is gutting resources that help students …

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March 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Trump’s Massive ED Cuts😡

Read the latest Weekly Education Report Trump’s Massive ED Cuts 😡 View and share our Substack with 3 friends! This week, the Trump administration made massive cuts and layoffs in the US Dept. of Education — stifling its ability to support public schools and our students. The Trump administration i…

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March 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM

🚨Emergency Townhall w/ Congressman Stanton🚨

Hi John, Save Our Schools Arizona is hosting an Emergency Townhall with Congressman Greg Stanton (D-4) regarding the Trump administration’s recent cuts to the US Department of Education and attacks on public schools, students, and educators. Join us to hear directly from Rep. Stanton about what’s g…

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March 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM

Weekly Ed Report: We're Not Going to Take It!

PLUS good news for Phoenix kids, AZ Legislature won't stop making things worse We Won’t Let Them Win!  View and share a URL to this email with 3 friends! Sign up for any paid Substack subscription between March 1-15 for a chance to win 2 FREE tickets to The Celebration of Arizona's Public Schools!…

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March 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Weekly Ed Report: Another Horne Fiasco, Trump’s DEI Snitch Line, and Rally for Kids!!!!

Rally to Protect Our Kids!!! View and share a URL to this email with 3 friends! Sign up for any paid Substack subscription between March 1-15 for a chance to win 2 FREE tickets to The Celebration of Arizona's Public Schools! We are joining forces with allies and supportive organizations across AZ…

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February 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM

URGENT - Rally Next WEDS

Hi John, This year for Public Schools Week, we are asking folks to STAND UP for public education. What can you do?  Contact Congress to Protect Public Ed: Contact your U.S. Senators & Representatives to urge them to protect the U.S. Department of Education and the MILLIONS of vulnerable student…

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February 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Stand UP for Public Schools!

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! Stand UP for Public Schools!  View and share a URL to this email with 3 friends! Sign up for any paid Substack subscription in February and win SOSAZ merch of your choice! It’s all so much right now. We feel you. The assault on democracy and public education…

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February 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Are You Ready to Rumble? 😡

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! Are You Ready to Rumble? 😡  View and share a URL to this email with 3 friends! Sign up for any paid Substack subscription in February and win SOSAZ merch of your choice! This Thursday, the confirmation hearing for President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Ed…

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February 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Horne Wants Dept. of Ed Abolished — Threatening $1B for AZ Kids

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! Horne Wants Dept. of Ed Abolished — Threatening $1B for AZ KidsFull Weekly Education Report HERE - now hosted on Substack!Sign up for any paid subscription in February and win SOSAZ merch of your choice! As President Trump and billionaire special interests …

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February 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Attacks on Public Ed Mount

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! Attacks on Public Ed Mount What. A. Week. We’re reading the constant stream of executive orders and news so you don’t have to. Read on to get a high-level view of these federal actions relating to K-12 schools — and please keep in mind: most of these actions…

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January 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM

Trump 2.0: What to Expect for Arizona's K-12 Schools

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! Trump 2.0: What to Expectfor Arizona's K-12 Schools Full Weekly Education Report HERE - now hosted on Substack! Our team is getting a lot of questions about Trump’s second term and what it could mean for public education. While we’re only one week into what …

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January 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM

Gov. Hobbs Calls to Stop Voucher Welfare for the Wealthy

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! Gov. Hobbs Calls to StopVoucher Welfare for the Wealthy Full Weekly Education Report HERE - now hosted on Substack! On Monday, in her third State of the State speech, Gov. Katie Hobbs made it clear that public education remains a cornerstone priority for her…

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January 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM

They’re Baaaaaack… AZ Legislative Preview

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! They’re Baaaaaack…AZ Legislative Preview Full Weekly Education Report HERE - now hosted on Substack! Opening Day: The Arizona Legislature will begin its 57th session this Monday, January 13, and Gov. Hobbs will deliver her third State of the State address. J…

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January 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM

2025 is Here — a Look Back, and Looking Forward

Hi John, Our notoriously active team has been taking some time for renewal and rest, after a tremendously taxing election year. When we say our team left it all on the field, we mean it. We hope you have gotten some equally deserved rest, as well as lovely holidays with the people you care about.  W…

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December 28, 2024 at 3:04 PM

Mark Your Calendars for these Upcoming Events!

Dear John, The second meeting of the Save Our Schools Arizona Network Book Club is Sunday, January 5 from 2:00-3:30pm! We will be discussing the second half of “Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women & the Politics of White Supremacy.” To buy your copy, you can go to Changing Hands Booksto…

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December 21, 2024 at 2:04 PM

Help! Ensure Your Account Is Up-to-Date

Dear John, To start the new year with our best foot forward, we are doing some clean-up of our database of incredible education advocates across Arizona and the US. With looming threats to public education, we want to make sure we can get important action alerts to you asap!  Below is the info we …

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December 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM

Horne creates voucher free-for-all! 🤯

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! Horne Creates Voucher Free-For-All  No questions asked: Arizona Superintendent Tom Horne announced this week that the ADE will fast-track the repayment of 85,000 purchases up to $2000 in the off-the-rails ESA voucher program — without any prior review to ensu…

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December 11, 2024 at 2:00 AM

What’s Coming Up?! SOSAZ Book Club & more!

Dear John, The first meeting of the Save Our Schools Arizona Network Book Club is Sunday, December 15 from 2:00-3:30pm! We will be discussing the first half of “Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women & the Politics of White Supremacy.” To buy your copy, you can go to Changing Hands Booksto…

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December 8, 2024 at 6:54 PM

Voucher Fraud for “Ghost” Kids — AGAIN?!

Read the latest Weekly Education Report! Voucher Fraud for "Ghost" Kids  —  AGAIN?! Ghost vouchers strike again: Arizona’s unaccountable ESA voucher program is once again the subject of a major fraud scandal. This time, it involves 43 fictitious “ghost” children who received $110,000 to attend fake…

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November 30, 2024 at 3:03 PM

OpEd: Setting the Stage for 2025

You can share this email: click HERE for link.  Dear John, We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones, and we are sending our thanks to all of you for being tremendous champions for Arizona students, educators, families, and public schools.  Yesterday, the Arizona Mirror ran our…

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November 24, 2024 at 10:01 PM

Thankful, and Focused on the Future

Dear John, First, we want to express our gratitude for all of your efforts to effect change this year for Arizona’s students, educators, and public schools. Many of the races we worked so hard on did not go our way and we are devastated for our state and our schools.   However, it’s important to n…

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November 17, 2024 at 6:15 PM

Don't miss! What Comes Next

If you haven't registered yet, please don't miss this debriefHi John, Now that election results in most races are all but finalized, we hope you’ll be in community with us this Sunday, November 17 at 6:00pm for a virtual Statewide Volunteer Huddle: Election Results & How We Move Forward. We pl…

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November 14, 2024 at 12:01 AM

What Comes Next

Hi John, Now that election results in most races are all but finalized, we hope you’ll be in community with us this Sunday, November 17 at 6:00pm for a virtual Statewide Volunteer Huddle: Election Results & How We Move Forward. We plan to debrief the races we watched most closely, hear from me…

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November 10, 2024 at 11:01 PM

We’ve Fallen Short — But We are By No Means Done

Feel free to share our message with THIS URL. Hi John, We are devastated to send this email, but we want to update you on our state legislative races. While we fought valiantly to flip the balance of power at the state legislature and our organizers and volunteers left everything on the field in …

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November 7, 2024 at 5:05 PM

There’s no time to waste

Help cure ballots to save our schools Hi John, We have an update on the ongoing ballot curing efforts that began yesterday and will only go through Sunday, November 10 at 5 pm. There is literally no time to waste when our students, schools, and the balance of power in the legislature are on the li…

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November 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM

You Can STILL Help

Hi friend, We know you are feeling helpless and hopeless this morning.  Most of our state legislative and school board races are too close to call, but we hope to have news on that front soon. However, there is STILL a way you can effect change on these races and other races in Arizona — “ballot cu…

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October 30, 2024 at 1:34 AM

It's Fright Week!

NOTHING is scarier than our friendly voters leaving their ballots on the kitchen counter Hi John, 👻 Will Arizona’s legislature flip? Will our school boards be protected? It’s hard to tell — but one thing we DO know is that there are still 2.8 MILLION Arizona voters (63%!) who have not voted yet! NO…

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October 26, 2024 at 2:02 PM

TL;DR Version!

Speed-read the weekly ed news & go knock doors! It's GOTV Time — 10 Days Left! We have 10 days to elect a new, pro-public education Arizona Legislature. We are so, so close. We hope you’ve already returned your ballot (it needs to be put in the mail by TUESDAY the 29th). And we sure hope you vo…

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October 25, 2024 at 2:02 AM

ICYMI: Spooky Season! 👻 🗳️

Have some fun with us, and make a REAL difference! Hi John, With just 13 SHORT days left until Election Day, we are knocking friendly doors and calling friendly voters to help people fill out their whole ballots with our awesome, comprehensive BALLOT GUIDE.  But early returns are scary — as of this…

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October 23, 2024 at 9:45 PM

Spooky Season! 👻 🗳️

Have some fun with us, and make a REAL difference! Hi John, With just 13 SHORT days left until Election Day, we are knocking friendly doors and calling friendly voters to help people fill out their whole ballots with our awesome, comprehensive BALLOT GUIDE.  But early returns are scary — as of this…

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October 23, 2024 at 1:30 AM

What are we hearing on the streets?

The races are tight--but we can bring it home! Dear John   Since May, we’ve been knocking doors and calling voters. Hundreds, then thousands, now hundreds of thousands a week.  What are we hearing out there?  Arizonans of all walks of life love our public schools, want educators to be paid more, an…

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October 20, 2024 at 4:42 PM

"Not a Choice for Everyone" — The False Narrative of Vouchers

Read the latest SOSAZ Weekly Education Report! "Not a Choice for Everyone" — The False Narrative of Vouchers Arizona, the Cautionary Tale Against Vouchers: Arizona was featured in another in-depth article from the investigative journalists at ProPublica, which caught major national attention this …

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October 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM

CORRECTION: All Hands on Deck! 🆘 🗳️

Don't wake up on Nov. 6 wishing you'd done more! CORRECTION to yesterday's email: Whoops! For all of you planning to canvass today in LD4 for Marsh, Butler & Gresham, it’s 8:45 AM not PM (you probably figured that out lol). See you out there!!!BALLOTS are HERE: All Hands on Deck! 🆘 🗳️ Hi John, …

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October 18, 2024 at 9:07 PM

BALLOTS are HERE — All Hands on Deck! 🆘 🗳️

Don't wake up on Nov. 6 wishing you'd done more! BALLOTS are HERE: All Hands on Deck! 🆘 🗳️ Hi John, Arizona ballots are in mailboxes and on kitchen counters across our state. We only have 18 short days to get voters the information they need! We are knocking doors and calling voters every single day…

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October 16, 2024 at 2:01 PM

Less than 3 weeks 🫨

Getting out the vote Dear John  Ballots are being returned daily across Arizona, and we are sure hoping they contain votes for pro-public education legislative and school board candidates — as well as YES votes on all bonds and overrides!  But hoping is of course not enough — and not how we do thing…

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October 13, 2024 at 11:15 PM

ICYMI: It’s Time to Vote, Arizona!

Your comprehensive 2024 voter guide… 🗳️ It’s Time to Vote, Arizona! 🗳️ Ballots across Arizona are headed to mailboxes this week! In fact, yours might be waiting for you already!   And, if you haven’t heard, there’s nothing better than voting EARLY. Once your vote’s been counted, the slew of obnoxi…

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October 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM

It’s Time to Vote, Arizona!

Your comprehensive 2024 voter guide… All Eyes on Arizona 👀 Ballots across Arizona are headed to mailboxes this week! In fact, yours might be waiting for you already!   And, if you haven’t heard, there’s nothing better than voting EARLY. Once your vote’s been counted, the slew of obnoxious texts, em…

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October 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM

🗳️ TODAY'S THE DAY!

Ballots are in the mail Dear John   Today’s the day! Ballots go in the mail and are being shipped across Arizona to your mailboxes! With the excitement comes nerves, apprehension, and nausea. Did we do enough? Did we talk to every willing voter? And do we have enough time and resources to ensure ev…

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October 6, 2024 at 3:31 PM

👀 All Eyes on Arizona 👀

Read the latest SOSAZ Weekly Education Report! All Eyes on Arizona 👀 #1 Battleground State: Did you know that Politico listed Arizona as the #1 battleground state for flipping the state legislature?   Ballots drop Wednesday! We have 4 short weeks to make the case to Arizona voters to vote for many …

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October 4, 2024 at 2:01 PM

We get it—we can't all do it all

😉 But we can all do some! Dear John    Not everyone can knock on a ton of doors or call voters — we get it! Between kids, work, family, and just *life* it can be very hard to put in any extra hours, even if you desperately want to help. But we also need another form of help, and we’re sending this t…

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October 3, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Good tired

Our team is leaving it all on the field Dear John   WHEW! We are tired. The good kind of tired. We are launching 20 canvasses and 5 phonebanks every week, and growing. Our field teams are leaving it all on the field, and sweating it out (literally!) to make Arizona a better, fairer, more prosperous …

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September 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM

Goldwater Sues to Make AZ Vouchers a Blank Check

Read the latest SOSAZ Weekly Education Report! Goldwater Sues to Make AZ Vouchers a Blank Check This week, the suits over at the Goldwater Institute (a right-wing organization that has long pushed school vouchers with zero accountability) launched a reckless lawsuit against the State of Arizona and…

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September 22, 2024 at 8:04 PM

$360 Million in Unspent Voucher Funds

Read the latest SOSAZ Weekly Education Report! $360 Million in Unspent Voucher Funds A shocking new study by Arizona’s Grand Canyon Institute (GCI), a nonpartisan research organization, shows hundreds of millions of unspent dollars accumulating in ESA voucher accounts — as Arizona’s public school s…

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September 20, 2024 at 12:13 AM

THIS WEEKEND! 🍎 🎉

Hi John! Okay, this is HUGE! We are so excited to announce that we are partnering with a wide coalition of organizations across the state on a HUGE weekend of action dedicated to K-12 Education!  That’s right, we’ll be knocking doors for a host of incredible candidates up and down your ballot who ar…

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September 15, 2024 at 3:54 PM

😳 “This is a Joke, Right?”

Read the latest SOSAZ Weekly Education Report! "This is a Joke, Right?" We only wish it were.   🌍 Flat earthers spark controversy: This week, an ESA voucher Facebook group sparked fierce debate when a voucher parent asked about using voucher funds to purchase Flat Earth “curriculum.” As Mary Jo Pit…

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September 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

🔥SPECIAL WEEKEND OF ACTION!

Hi John! It’s 8 weeks before the election and less than 4 weeks before ballots are mailed out, so of course EVERY weekend is a special weekend. But this one is near and dear to our hearts because we are prioritizing local school bond and override campaigns. These hyper local campaigns often don’t ha…

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