GOP leaders defend voucher measure: legal even if it bans all reforms

By: Jim Small

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: August 7, 2026

Words: 1,108

Last Updated: 1 week, 4 days ago


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Republican legislative leaders deny that a measure they proposed was aimed at heading off a rival measure to regulate the state’s school voucher system – but say it would be constitutional even if it did.

Voucher opponents are preoccupied with a clause in Proposition 145 that they say will nullify Proposition 212, the Protect Education Act, which seeks to place a series of regulations on Arizona’s school voucher program, attorneys for Senate President Warren …

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