The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

As we enter the hot summer months here in Arizona, with kids out of school, and the Legislature adjourned for the year, we often seem to forget that it will cool off again, kids will be back in school sooner than we think, and we still have a state Legislature pushing Arizona down the wrong track.

Thanks to our current Legislature, when the kids do return to classes this August, they will be facing:

• the most crowded classrooms in the nation
• the lowest per-pupil funding in the nation
• significantly fewer teachers and support personnel
• sports and arts programs canceled or with much higher fees
• no state support for all-day kindergarten
• and much more.

And it could have been worse. With passage of Proposition 100, the good citizens of Arizona averted the educational disaster pre-approved by your Legislators; but we still have a long way to go. We need to elect Legislators who will put the best interests of our children and our state ahead of their own political ambitions and extreme partisan ideologies.

I will fight to restore Public Education in Arizona so we are once again competitive with the rest of the nation and the world, as we were up until the mid-1990s. I will make it a priority to encourage the development of new industries, such as Solar, that will bring good paying jobs to our communities, and provide for long term economic stability. I will work with the cities of the West Valley to restore their state shared revenues to ensure we have the police officers and firefighters we need to be safe.

Join us and together we will restore the great state of Arizona.