As Katie Hobbs Spouts Lies About K-12 Education Spending, Republicans Must Push Back - The...

Education at the University level and K-12 is under attack by the Democrats. The new Arizona governor Katie Hobbs’s first State of the State address delivered earlier this week, claimed that our schools are woefully underfunded and that “investments” in our schools are long overdue. But there’s a problem: Hobbs’s assertion just isn’t true.

Funding for K-12 education in Arizona is at its highest level in state history. And the reason we know this is because there is a constitutional expenditure limit—which Hobbs couldn’t help but attack in her address. But this limit, which was approved by voters, isn’t some subjective cap that legislators can manipulate to cover up how much or how little is being spent. It’s an objective formula used by the Department of Revenue every year to determine funding levels based on student population, plus inflation, plus an additional 10% on top of that.

That amounted to Fiscal Year 2022, $14,326 per student. Because the funding is associated with headcount, that may be the reason Gov. Hobb was an advocate for removing the cargo boxes on the border used as barriers to illegals. Illegal children pour into Arizona and the state must use their budget to educate those children. Gov. Hobb went further and illegals can attend the State Universities at the same rate as resident students. In addition, Gov. Hobb (D) is proposing a state-funded scholarship program, with $40 million in taxpayer money.

Margaret Thatcher — "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

@Lt Col Charlie Brown