Arizona public schools face $1.1 Billion in cuts on March 1, 2022 if the Legislature does not override K-12 spending cap. A law passed in 1980 approved a limit on what public schools are allowed to spend in a year. If schools exceed the limit in a school year the law allows the legislatures to provide an "expenditure override" with 2/3 votes in each chamber. The override does not increase taxes and is not attached to the 2022 budget decisions.
We call upon all Arizonans to contact their state legislators to remove the cap this year, and stop the cuts to education spending in future budgets with no string attached.
