Again ... brothers and sisters ... "REAL DEMOCRATS" would NOT vote for this ....
Too bad our public schools can't do like the charter schools are doing this week in the Phoenix city council ... they are going to get over a hundred million dollars in tax free bonding from the city of Phoenix council ... the probability for this is pretty good as the council over the last two years have approved almost a half billion dollars for corporate charter schools. Imagine that ... all the charter schools do ... is go to the Phoenix mayor and council and ask for a yes vote ... and voila ! They get their tax free bonding ....
Now ... you might say that has nothing to do with the Az. governor's huge proposed cut backs to Arizona education but ... the fact of the matter is ... that when these sweet tax free bond votes for corporate charter schools are handed out ... they don't have to go knock on tens or even hundreds of thousands of doors asking voters for these bonds ... all these corporate charter schools have to do is go to nine Phoenix city council people and the mayor and they get their funding approved by voice vote ... very unfair and as a matter of fact a form of corporate welfare that takes away (through tax free bonding) from the very public coffers from which other public services are payed for ...
Please call the mayor of Phoenix Greg Stanton (602-262-7111) and his council (602-262-7777) or go to the meeting and as them to vote no for this unfair tax free give away of hundreds of millions in bonding for corporate charter schools while our public schools are facing huge cut backs.
I have posted the agenda items below exactly as they appear on next week's agenda for the Phoenix city to be held on Wednesday at 3:00PM. Please Facebook message me if you have any questions and if you would like to be there to ask mayor Stanton and the Phoenix city council to vote no on approving hundreds of millions for a small number of corporate charter schools. This is not about politics ... this is about fairness in a time when the governor is making outrageous cuts to our public schools while increasing funding for prisons.
Thank you, Leonard Clark :)
CITY COUNCIL MEETING 3:00PM Wednesday, Phoenix city council chambers ...
ITEM 43
DISTRICT 1 AND OUT OF CITY
RESOLUTION 21299 -
ISSUANCE OF ONE OR MORE SERIES OF UP TO $19,000,000 OF THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA, TAX-EXEMPT, AND/OR TAXABLE EDUCATION FACILITY REVENUE BONDS (POINTE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES PROJECT) - SERIES 2015
ITEM 44
DISTRICT 3 AND OUT OF CITY
RESOLUTION 21300 -
ISSUANCE OF ONE OR MORE SERIES OF UP TO $95,000,000 OF THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA, TAX-EXEMPT, AND/OR TAXABLE EDUCATION FACILITY REVENUE BONDS (BASIS SCHOOLS, INC. PROJECTS) - SERIES 2015
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