To: AEA, The Arizona Education Association and The Arizona State Senate
Stop Prop 123!
Prop 123 asks voters to approve the State's defunding of Education in favor of tax breaks for the rich. Stop Prop 123 from making a law that defunds education in both the short and long term and violates the law already passed by the voters and upheld by the Supreme Court.
Why is this important?
The voters of Arizona have already approved, by initiative, the funding of the Arizona schools by billions of dollars more than the State Government has provided. The Arizona Supreme Court has already found, by a 5-0 ruling, that the State must correct this under-funding.
Prop 123 reverses the voter initiative that approved this funding of the schools and sells off 3.5 billions of dollars of State Trust lands. This will permanently cost the schools $100 million in revenue every single year in the future at a time when the State government has hundreds of millions in surpluses that they plan to give away in tax breaks to their wealthy donors.