Yesterday the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 212 - the anti-school choice measure funded by out-of-state special interests - failed to submit enough valid signatures to appear on the November ballot. According to the legal team leading the challenge, the measure fell approximately 12,000 signatures short.
With today's decision more than 100,000 Arizona children currently thriving on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, and the thousands of students to come, are safe from this particular attack.
Arizonans saw through it.
Out-of-state special interests poured money into our state for one purpose: to wrestle educational freedom away from Arizona families. They hired paid circulators and had every advantage money can buy.
Yet Arizonans when asked, saw through it and declined to sign. In numbers so overwhelming that the opposition couldn't hit their threshold through legitimate means and resorted to cutting corners the Court threw out.
This is what a true grassroots effort looks like. The people of Arizona were asked to put this measure on the ballot, and they declined. Loudly.
This is answered prayer. Please take a moment today to thank God for His protection over Arizona families and for the organizations that have been working around the clock to defend educational freedom, specifically:
With today's decision more than 100,000 Arizona children currently thriving on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, and the thousands of students to come, are safe from this particular attack.
Arizonans saw through it.
Out-of-state special interests poured money into our state for one purpose: to wrestle educational freedom away from Arizona families. They hired paid circulators and had every advantage money can buy.
Yet Arizonans when asked, saw through it and declined to sign. In numbers so overwhelming that the opposition couldn't hit their threshold through legitimate means and resorted to cutting corners the Court threw out.
This is what a true grassroots effort looks like. The people of Arizona were asked to put this measure on the ballot, and they declined. Loudly.
This is answered prayer. Please take a moment today to thank God for His protection over Arizona families and for the organizations that have been working around the clock to defend educational freedom, specifically:
- Goldwater Institute
- Love Your School
- Arizona Free Enterprise Club
- Attorney Kory Langhofer
- AZ Loves ESAs
There are more we couldn't name in this short note, and every one of them deserves our thanks.
To every school leader, family, pastor, and supporter who prayed, showed up, made calls, and spoke out: your involvement mattered.
But the work isn't finished. Our full attention now turns to the mid-term elections this November.
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