2023 Legislative Priorities

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2022 Legislative Scorecard

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The Countdown Begins:

AZ Students Need a Permanent Fix to the School Spending Limit

HEALTH. EDUCATION. SAFETY.

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Our 2023 Legislative Priorities

We urge elected officials to protect Arizona’s ability to meet the education, health care, and human services needs of vulnerable children and families by not introducing new tax cuts, tax credits, or any other legislation that reduces state revenue.

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Legislative Agenda

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Issues we support

We work to create an Arizona where every child is safe, loved, and has access to quality education and affordable health care.

AZ Kids Count Data Book

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Our signature resource, the Arizona KIDS COUNT Data Book, is the only Data Book that focuses on statewide data trends about children. The Data Book is one of many ways we inform and influence others to advance policies to benefit Arizona children.

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The Countdown Begins - AZ Students Need a Permanent Fix to the School Spending Limit

Arizona voters approved into law a limit on what public schools can spend in a year based on the needs in 1980. If schools exceed the limit in a school year, as they did last year and again this year, the law allows the legislature to provide an “expenditure override” to allow districts to spend…

Child Uninsured Rate Could Rise Sharply if Arizona Doesn’t Act to Protect Children’s Coverage

SAVE THE DATE:  March 8 - Support oral health for the whole family at the Capitol

15,000 Arizona kids gained health coverage during the pandemic – but we’ve still got work to do.

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National academic progress report is out - See how AZ students performed