Lawmakers agree to put $3.8M more to education
Published on Friday, July 10, 2009
After six months of squabbling over Arizona’s projected $3 billion to $4 billion budget deficit, the Legislature voted unanimously in its first day July 6 of a special session on a budget package that restored $3.2 million in funding for public education and added another $400 million for schools.
Unresolved, however, is how the budget is to be balanced with the new expenditures.
After its one-day meeting, the Legislature has been in recess and is scheduled to resume the special session today (July 13) to try to work out a compromise budget.
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has been pushing for the idea of asking voters to approve temporarily raising the state’s sales tax from 5.6 percent to 6.6 percent.
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