Arizona
Opinion | Arizona’s School Choice Election
Arizona Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs speaks to the media earlier than dropping off her major election poll in Scottsdale, Ariz., July 21.
Photograph:
Ross D. Franklin/Related Press
One lesson from Virginia’s election final 12 months and college board races across the nation is that folks desire a bigger say within the training of their youngsters. That’s dangerous information for Democrat
Katie Hobbs,
who’s working for Governor in Arizona on a promise to roll again the state’s latest faculty selection growth.
A decade in the past Arizona pioneered training financial savings accounts, or ESAs, which let dad and mom spend state {dollars} for his or her little one’s non-public faculty tuition, tutoring, curriculum and different training wants. This system was restricted primarily to college students with particular wants or who attended low-rated public faculties, however this 12 months Republicans made it common.
Now dad and mom can get roughly $7,000 to make use of as they select to teach their youngsters. ESAs are a far better risk to the lecturers union public-school monopoly than the state’s tax credit score scholarships, which rely partially on particular person and company donations and sometimes aren’t sufficient to cowl non-public tuition. Many constitution faculties even have lengthy wait lists.
Echoing her union allies, Ms. Hobbs claims in her training plan that Republicans “have moved to increase faculty vouchers with out commonsense measures of accountability, with the clear intent to ultimately dispose of our native public faculties. . . . Vouchers shouldn’t have been expanded to supply an unaccountable technique of enriching non-public faculties and defunding our native public faculties.”
Translation: Dad and mom can’t be trusted with making training choices, a message unlikely to play nicely with dad and mom.
Her declare that ESAs “defund” public faculties is fake. State training {dollars} comply with college students, however public faculties would proceed to get different funding. In accordance with the Goldwater Institute, ESAs this 12 months price about $6,400 for the everyday pupil, in comparison with greater than $11,000 that state and native taxpayers spend on every public faculty pupil. In any case, Gov.
Doug Ducey’s
funds this 12 months elevated Okay-12 public funding by $1 billion, so the unions haven’t any motive to gripe.
The unions need to lock all college students into the general public faculty system they management. Additionally they fear that common ESAs will enhance competitors amongst states. Arizona Republicans have set an instance. Will Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis
permit himself to be outdone? What about Texas Republicans, who’ve been gradual to embrace non-public faculty selection?
Ms. Hobbs is doing the union’s bidding by attempting to kill ESAs. The race for Governor is shut, and Democrats are looking for to rev up turnout by making the election about
Donald Trump.
GOP gubernatorial nominee
Kari Lake
hasn’t helped herself or her get together by insisting that the 2020 election was stolen. Her election fraud claims postpone many Republicans and independents and are a loser within the common election. A profitable and unifying concern for Republicans this November is faculty selection.
Mr. DeSantis received in 2018 thanks partially to help from black moms who have been fearful his Democratic opponent would take away their youngsters’ state scholarships. Ms. Lake has an opportunity to drive an identical message, and Ms. Hobbs has made herself susceptible by telling dad and mom they’ll’t be trusted with faculty selection.
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Appeared within the September 27, 2022, print version.
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Arizona
3-star offensive lineman Michael Langi commits to Arizona, first pledge of 2026 class
Arizona has been on a tear this month, picking up 13 commitments in June for its 2025 recruiting class after entering with only two. And now it already has one for the following class.
3-star offensive lineman Michael Langi committed to the UA on Tuesday night, giving the Wildcats their first pledge of the 2026 class nearly 18 months before those recruits could officially sign.
he 6-foot-3, 265-pound Langi, who goes by ‘Bobo’ rather than Michael, is ranked by 247Sports as the No. 509 player in the 2026 class. He’s also considered the No. 41 interior offensive lineman in the country and the No. 79 prospect from California.
Langi, who was offered by Arizona in January, picked the Wildcats over offers from ASU, Colorado and Penn State, among others. He is the younger brother of 3-star offensive lineman Peter Langi, a 2025 recruit whom the UA had in for an official visit last weekend.
Both Langis play for Archbishop Riordan in San Francisco, the same school where Arizona recently got a commitment from 3-star offensive lineman Losipini Tupou. They are no relation to Sam Langi, who appeared in 21 games (with four starts) on the offensive line for the Wildcats from 2020-23.
Arizona
Former Baylor pitcher Collin McKinney commits to Arizona baseball
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In winning both the Pac-12 regular season and conference tournament titles, Arizona put up some of the best pitching numbers in the country and led the nation in a trio of categories.
The Kevin Vance effect was real, and it’s made the Wildcats a desirable destination for pitchers hoping to improve their pro prospects.
Arizona has landed a second potential weekend starter from the NCAA transfer portal, getting a commitment Tuesday from former Baylor right-hander Collin McKinney.
The 6-foot-5 Texas native comes to Tucson with three years of eligibility, but with a big 2025 season could get drafted. He’s coming off a 2024 campaign as a redshirt freshman (he sat out 2023 due to injury) in which he started 14 games for Baylor and was 3-6 with a 6.70 ERA.
McKinney struck out 60 batters in 49.2 innings but also walked 35 and allowed 11 home runs. He had back-to-back 10-strikeout performances midway through the season but didn’t go more than four innings in any of his final seven starts.
He is Arizona’s second portal pickup, both righties who have started throughout their college career. Last week the Wildcats landed ex-Rutgers RHP Christian Coppola.
Coppola is ranked by 64Analytics as the No. 30 transfer, while McKinney is No. 168. For perspective, none of the players Arizona has lost to the portal was ranked in the top 1,000.
The UA is likely to lose all three weekend starters with righties Clark Candiotti and Cam Walty graduating and lefty Jackson Kent expected to get drafted and start his pro career.
Arizona
Police: Horse in May crash that killed Arizona man was domesticated
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RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – Nevada State Police say the horse involved in a May crash that killed an Arizona man was domesticated.
On May 31, a 2008 Subaru Tribeca with three occupants was driving north of US 395 approaching the Red Rock off-ramp when it hit a horse in the road.
Of the three occupants, one, 19-year-old Wendem Herzog of Queen Creek, Arizona, succumbed to his injuries.
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