After compromise dies, Arizona GOP rushes through ballot referral to block voucher reforms

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: June 13, 2026

Words: 1,383

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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In the final hours of the annual legislative session, Republican lawmakers pushed through a ballot referral that, if approved by voters, would nullify two citizen-led initiatives aimed at regulating the state’s billion-dollar school voucher program.

The move came after a failed last-ditch effort to avoid a public vote on the voucher program led by the Arizona Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union. That proposal would have implemented more modest reforms on the universal …

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