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OPINION: Arizona Speaker of the House Puts State Constitution on Track to Banish DEI
Arizona lawmakers are advancing the most powerful state constitutional protections against racially discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) practices in the nation, and even DEI proponents like Gov. Katie Hobbs will not be able to stop them with her veto pen.
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Goldwater Institute on Arizona Court of Appeals decision regarding 'The Zone': 'A welcome reminder that the government is not above the law'
An Arizona appellate court has concurred with a trial court judge’s ruling last September, which ordered the City of Phoenix to clean up “The Zone”, a name for the vast homeless encampment operating for more than a year on City streets.
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OPINION: Taxpayer-funded wine tastings? AZ school leaders splurge for DEI conference
Who wouldn’t want to spend a few days at a five-star resort and spa in California wine country leisurely enjoying wine-tasting parties at Napa Valley wineries and sampling five-star cuisine? Better yet, who wouldn’t want to take that trip without needing to pay for it or take time off work?
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Goldwater Institute policy director: Phoenix Elementary School planned to send board member to 'leftwing' conference as 'professional development'
The Goldwater Institute claims a Phoenix school district board had attempted to “pull money from the classroom” to provide its board members with thousands of dollars for an out-of-state training camp promoting progressive ideologies, labeled as “professional development.”
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Goldwater: Homelessness remains high in AZ cities, despite 'hundreds of millions of dollars poured into' homelessness programs
A policy report produced by The Goldwater Institute examining homelessness in Maricopa County and Pima County shows government agencies “have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into various efforts to fight homelessness, yet the homeless population remains stubbornly high and continues to grow.”
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Grand Canyon Times Podcast: Hundreds of Millions Spent in Arizona to Combat Homelessness; What are the Results?
Austin VanDerHeyden, the Municipal Affairs Liaison at The Goldwater Institute, joined the Grand Canyon Times podcast to discuss his organization’s new report showing that hundreds of millions of dollars has been spent to “combat homelessness” by the Phoenix and Tucson governments, with little transparency or return on investment.
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Goldwater Institute criticizes UA's DEI course work
The Goldwater Institute is criticizing the University of Arizona's educational mission for prioritizing "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) over core subjects like American history and civics.
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Goldwater Institute’s Setyon: ‘We're spending a lot more to subsidize the public education of so-called higher earning families’
A new report released by the Goldwater Institute, titled "The Anti-ESA Double Standard: How Arizona Taxpayers Spend Billions More on High Income Households Through Public Schooling"challenges prevalent narratives surrounding the state's universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program.
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Goldwater Institute Director of Education Policy: Department of Education ‘came out with an inflammatory and very extreme aggressive letter’ against GCU
Matt Beienburg, the director of education policy at the Goldwater Institute said the U.S. Department of Education is pursuing their allegations against Grand Canyon University (GCU) in a very aggressive and abnormal manner. The Department of Education has accused GCU of misleading some of their students.
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Grand Canyon Times Podcast: Goldwater Institute’s Matt Beienburg on the Federal Government’s Targeting of Grand Canyon University
Matt Beienburg, the director of education policy at the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute, appeared on the Grand Canyon Times Podcast to discuss the Biden Administration’s $37.7 million fine on Grand Canyon University (GCU), the largest Christian university in the U.S.
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OPINION: Arizona ranks 1st in education choice in back-to-back years
Arizona is leading the nation in freeing families from a failing public education system thanks to the Goldwater Institute’s work.
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The Immortality of Ben Franklin and the American Dream Made Real
Originally Published by the Goldwater Institute
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Arizona House Dem Leader criticized after sharing cropped photo of letter about state's Empowerment Scholarship Account program savings
Arizona House Democrat Leader Andrés Cano (D-20) received Twitter “Community Notes” after sharing only a portion of a letter he said showed “Empowerment Scholarship Accounts will bankrupt our state and public schools.”
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DeAngelis to Hobbs: ‘You went to a private school, hypocrite’
A national school choice advocate criticized Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) after Hobbs said Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program is “not sustainable.”
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2021 Year in Review: Arizona’s Occupational Licensing Reform Continues to be a National Model
2021 Year in Review: Arizona’s Occupational Licensing Reform Continues to be a National Model.