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Tempe Elementary board adopts five legislative priorities, including push to repeal state spending cap
Summary
The Tempe Elementary School District governing board unanimously approved five legislative priorities April 1, led by a call to repeal Arizona's constitutional aggregate expenditure limit and to oppose expansion of programs that redirect public funds to private schools (ESAs).
The Tempe Elementary School District governing board on April 1 voted unanimously to adopt five legislative priorities it will ask the Arizona School Board Association to carry, highlighting a push to repeal the state's constitutional aggregate expenditure limit.
Board members said the aggregate expenditure limit (AEL), written into the state constitution in 1980, prevents districts from spending funds already collected under the state funding formula. "It's not new money," said Dr. Driscoll, the district's senior administrator who explained the AEL to the board. "We already have the money. We just can't spend it because of the cap." Several members…
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