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They'll win eventually.  They vote to reduce budgets while appointing admin and board members that hate secular education.
“Freedom Caucus” is a weird way of saying fascist. These monsters want public schools to default. That’s why they funnel money to charters and private schools. They want to be able to discriminate openly in education. >

Republicans are great at marketing bad ideas. I wish the Democrats were better with their marketing. >

Regardless of democrat marketing they support the same policies. They had unilateral control of Govt for 2 years and chose to leverage that for midterm votes instead of passing policy that would make real change. Democrats market really well to republicans who aren’t 100% down with fascism. Whole thing sucks >


unilateral control of Govt >

This is part of a long standing project to dismantle a public good and launder money to religious groups in a way that would otherwise be unconstitutional. >

Public education allowed this country to prosper for 200 years.  Now the GQP, doesn't want an educated citizenry. They might not fall for the scare tactic propaganda that is their current party platform. Anti science! Culture warfare! Fear mongering! >

The Republican Party has been actively defunding public education for decades, it’s nothing new. The results of their work are finally paying off as huge numbers of people lack basic education and critical thinking skills, and simply believe their bullshit because they don’t know any better. That makes it even easier for them to pass more laws to continue the process and the erode democracy and voters rights and accountability of elected officials and accrue more power. >

Reducing education and learning will increase female fertility. The right wing wants more females pregnant and having children. I think they will want to close both schools and libraries. >

And unwanted/neglected children tend to be more likely to end up in the private prisons their cronies have major investments in. >

Or the military. Or as wage slaves. >

You have no idea how mad I was when I found out rule of law was bullshit. Everyone at the bottom has to follow the laws but happen to be rich and you’re free to do as you please. Might’ve been the moment I wised up on the USA as a whole. I was down to be that wage slave as a kid in school just because that was what my environment pushed me towards
Oh also my mom had 4 kids, I’m the third and her first one she had when she was 16 with a 27 year old man >


You have no idea how mad I was when I found out rule of law was bullshit.    

Bet I do. I am a seething ball of rage to this day. >


These Republicans voted against raising the school spending limit: Neal Carter of Queen Creek, Joseph Chaplik of Scottsdale, Lupe Diaz of Benson, Liz Harris of Chandler, Justin Heap of Mesa, Laurin Hendrix of Gilbert, Rachel Jones of Tucson, Alexander Kolodin of Scottsdale, Cory McGarr of Marana, Steve Montenegro of Goodyear, Barbara Parker of Mesa, Jacqueline Parker of Mesa, Beverly Pingerelli of Peoria and Austin Smith of Wittmann.

Shame on them all. >

Kinda shocked none of 'em are from Sun City or Sun City West. You know, that group that once said they didn't want to pay taxes that go towards schools because all their children were already grown and didn't attend school - Fuck everyone else's children. >

Can anyone fill me in on why there was a vote for this at all? >

From the article; 

Lawmakers have known since last summer that the schools were facing a March 1 deadline to avoid disaster. Unlike charter schools, traditional district schools are limited in how much money they can spend, even if the money’s already in the bank.
The aggregate expenditure limit was set by voters in 1980 and is adjusted every year to account for inflation and enrollment. But declines in enrollment, major expenses never contemplated 43 years ago – along with a decision by our leaders a few years to move previously exempted funds under the spending cap – have pushed school budgets to that ceiling in recent years.
If the cap isn’t waived by March 1, $1.4 billion will disappear from Arizona’s public schools on April 1. That is 17.5% of their total annual budget – or put another way, 70% of the funding left for remaining two months of the school year.
The money will still be there. They just won't be able to spend it. >

The is like the countepart to the debt ceiling. Instead of money already being spent that they refuse to pay for, this is money in the bank that they refuse to spend. >


this is money in the bank that they refuse to spend.

No, they will quite happily spend it. Just not on education or anything else that will help the general public. Find a way to funnel it towards private interests and their cronies, and they will spend it so fast your head will spin. >


they will quite happily spend it. Just not on education or anything else that will help the general public.

You mean like some Arizona parents spending ESA money on kayaks, trampolines & SeaWorld tickets? >

Shame on the anti-Americans who voted for far-right legislators. >

Imagine living in a state that shuts down public schools. What the actual fuck!
The republican MAGA radicals sure do like to fuck up people's lives for shits and grins. >

The first thing the Taliban did when they retook Afghanistan was shut down girl's schools. >

Birds of a feather something something.