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Melinda Iyer

Melinda Iyer

Melinda Iyer is one of the cofounders of Save Our Schools Arizona. Save Our Schools Arizona is an all-volunteer, community-based nonpartisan advocacy and outreach group dedicated to supporting public education and tax dollar accountability in education.

COMMENTARY

Universal ESA vouchers: Arizona’s $1 billion failed experiment

By: and - August 16, 2023

Recent weeks have brought an unrelenting torrent of bad news around Arizona’s universal school voucher program, the largest and least accountable in the country.  And what has been the response from our state legislature? Republican leaders concluded the longest legislative session in state history without even so much as a token attempt to create any […]

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Even more tax cuts will gut Arizona schools and our economic future

By: and - March 27, 2023

Arizona’s budget is precariously perched on a two-legged stool, and Republican lawmakers want to saw off yet another leg, as the erstwhile party of fiscal responsibility has lost sight of any shred of economic stewardship, blinded by obsessions with cutting taxes for the rich and defunding public education.  And Arizona voters are waking up to […]

COMMENTARY

There is still so much to do for Arizona’s students, despite 2019 gains

By: and - June 12, 2019

While Arizona’s spending on education is growing faster than the national average, we’ve been too far behind for too long, and this year’s reinvestment doesn’t do much to make up the gap.