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Teachers, union leaders urge Marana Unified to back supports for autistic students and oppose voucher-driven cuts
Summary
During public comment, a Tortolita Middle School ceramics teacher and the Marana Education Association vice president asked the board to protect services for neurodivergent students and urged community action against state voucher expansion that they say diverts funding from public schools.
Two members of the Marana community used the district's public-comment period to ask the governing board to sustain services for students with disabilities and to press for stronger public-school funding.
Lily Tate, a ceramics teacher at Tortolita Middle School and a parent of an autistic kindergartner in the district, described her family's experience seeking assessments and services. Tate said the…
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