Teachers union uses felons to attack school choice in Arizona
A teachers union and its allies are trying to undermine one of the nation’s top school choice programs via a deceptive ballot initiative. “They’re trying to game the system by turning in tens of thousands of invalid signatures in an effort to destroy the most successful school choice program in the country. It isn’t.The number clears the 255,949 signatures required for a ballot initiative — but clearing the legal minimum and surviving the verification process that follows are two very different things.School choice opponents would need a 62% signature validity rate, and the national average rate is in the mid-to-high 70s.
- ▪A teachers union and its allies are trying to undermine one of the nation’s top school choice programs via a deceptive ballot initiative.
- ▪“They’re trying to game the system by turning in tens of thousands of invalid signatures in an effort to destroy the most successful school choice program in the country.
- ▪It isn’t.The number clears the 255,949 signatures required for a ballot initiative — but clearing the legal minimum and surviving the verification process that follows are two very different things.School choice opponents would need a 62% s
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A teachers union and its allies are trying to undermine one of the nation’s top school choice programs via a deceptive ballot initiative. But its reliance on felons convicted of heinous crimes, including manslaughter, kidnapping, human trafficking, and sexual abuse of a minor, to gather signatures for their initiative may be their undoing.“This is a shameless attack on Arizona’s parents, funded by an out-of-state union,” said Victor Riches, president and CEO of the Goldwater Institute, which is challenging the union’s initiative in court. “They’re trying to game the system by turning in tens of thousands of invalid signatures in an effort to destroy the most successful school choice program in the country.
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