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We recommend NO votes on legislative referrals: The extremist Republican majority running the Arizona legislature has placed a host of anti-democratic measures on the ballot to limit voters’ rights and give politicians more power. We are recommending a NO vote on all of these dangerous measures (numbered in the 100s and 300s), including Propositions 320, 318, 144, and 142.
🗳️❌ NO on Prop 320 – Death to Public Schools Bill
What It Would Do:
✅Find out more at NoOn320.com, as well as Facebook or Instagram.
Why Prop. 320 Hurts AZ Students, Teachers, and Communities:
❌ Extremely, intentionally deceptive. Putting 60% into classroom instruction might sound good, but it deceptively hides the problem: voters are being asked to approve a formula (and funding cuts) before they even know what will count as “direct instruction.”
❌ Doesn’t provide schools a single additional dollar or guarantee teachers a raise. In fact, the penalty would reduce Classroom Site Fund dollars used for teacher salaries and performance pay.
❌ Forces districts to cut necessities to satisfy an arbitrary accounting formula. Schools still need nurses, counselors, athletics, arts, special-education professionals, buses, safe buildings, air conditioning, technology, and basically everything else that makes a school…a school!
❌ Unfair double standard. Prop 320 would create a double standard by imposing new budget mandates on district schools while charter schools and voucher-funded private schools are not subject to the same requirement.
❌ Punishment is one-size-fits-all: A district that narrowly misses the target would face the same percentage funding penalty as a district that misses it by much more, and districts with higher special education and transportation costs would be penalized.
The bottom line: Prop 320 sounds like it would put more money in classrooms. It won’t. It would tell underfunded schools how to divide what little money they have and threaten funding cuts if they cannot meet a formula that isn’t even defined. Schools need funding, not one-size-fits-all restrictions. And don’t forget! This would give all of the power to set the rules to a single unelected official.
🗳️❌ NO on Prop 318: Invades Student Privacy and Turns Teachers & Coaches Into Gender Police
What It Would Do:
How It Would Harm AZ Students, Educators, and Families:
❌ Invades children’s privacy: Prop 318 is sold as a sports-fairness measure, but it goes far beyond who plays on which team and reaches bathrooms, locker rooms, and other private spaces. Its enforcement would invite invasive gender scrutiny of children. For example, any girl who does not fit someone else’s expectations about how a girl should look or perform could be questioned, accused, or dragged into a dispute. This threatens the privacy and dignity of everyone who wants to play.
❌ Invites endless lawsuits against schools: This would open up a potential Pandora’s box for parents of any aggrieved student to bring a lawsuit against a school, which will cost taxpayers millions.
❌ One-size-fits-all mandate: Prop 318 instead would impose a one-size-fits-all government mandate across different ages, schools, and types of sports, ruining any chance for kids to be able to just play. This poorly written proposal treats kindergarteners the same as college athletes.
❌ Culture war attack: Participating in sports teaches important values like perseverance, dedication, self-assurance, and teamwork. We should want more young people to play sports – but instead, Prop 318 would bring the culture wars into one of the last places we were able to escape them.
The bottom line: First, this law is already on the books. We can support kids in sports without giving the government more power over families and schools or inviting invasive scrutiny of kids that will traumatize them. Prop 318 is a poorly written culture-war mandate that prioritizes bullying children to score political points. ✅Find out more at No318.com!
🗳️❌ NO on Prop 144: Vote by Mail Ban
What It Would Do:
How It Would Harm Arizona Voters:
❌ Bans voting by mail: Prop. 144 is NOT a simple voter-ID measure – it goes much further. It rewrites rules for voting by mail, narrows which IDs voters can use, changes how election laws can be challenged in court, and creates new implementation costs.
❌ Makes voting prohibitively difficult: Voters would have to find a scanner, print out a copy of their ID, and then file it with the government (who already has it) every single time they vote.
❌ Makes voting less secure: Filing ID along with every early ballot risks exposing voters’ sensitive information to identity thieves, and delays the tabulation of election results.
❌Imposes unrealistic & costly mandates: Both Democratic and Republican election officials oppose this proposal because it would impose unrealistic mandates on already under-resourced local election offices. This measure would mean more work for voters and election officials, which costs more taxpayer dollars, not a better election system.
The Bottom Line: The partisan state legislators who wrote this proposal want to ban voting by mail. If passed, vote by mail will go overnight from a reliable means of voting used by most Arizonans to a chore, with fewer options for voters and changing rules far beyond identification. If this passes, voting by mail ends as we know it.
🗳️❌Prop 142: Attack on the First Amendment
What It Would Do:
Why It Harms Arizona Students, Educators, and Communities:
❌ Chilling Effect on Education & Training: The broad language risks chilling teachers, universities, agencies, and public employees who need to discuss real-world experiences with race and ethnicity as part of their work or education.
❌ Government Overreach: It sounds like an anti-discrimination measure, but Arizona’s Constitution already prohibits preferential treatment and discrimination. Prop 142 is an intentional deception that would impose government rules around speech, teaching, training, and discussion. We should not lock vague or sweeping speech restrictions into the Constitution where they are hard to fix. Plus, complicated constitutional language invites confusion, enforcement fights, and costly lawsuits.
The Bottom Line: Discrimination is already prohibited in Arizona. Prop 142 uses a popular value to hide a much broader government speech restriction.
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