Arizona Court: Anti-School Choice Initiative Lacks Signatures

Teachers Union-Backed Effort To Restrict Arizona School Choice Falls Short After Supreme Court Ruling

A multimillion-dollar campaign backed by state and national teachers unions to restrict Arizona’s universal school-choice program has effectively failed to qualify for the November ballot after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the method used to count disputed petition signatures. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Clark et al. v. Protect Education et al. that a lower court correctly handled duplicate signatures submitted by the campaign…

Arizona court: Anti-school choice initiative lacks signatures

(The Center Square) - The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that an initiative to regulate the state’s school choice program appears to lack enough valid signatures to qualify for the Nov.

Goldwater Wins Victory for ESAs, But Unions’ Attack on School Choice Will Continue

PHOENIX — The Goldwater Institute has scored a major victory in the battle over the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program, with the Arizona Supreme Court finding the union-backed Protect Education Act fell below the number of valid signatures necessary to qualify for the November ballot. But school choice supporters say the defeat was not the...