GOP referral that would prevent school voucher regulations blocked from the ballot

By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: August 18, 2026

Words: 685

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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The Republican-led ballot referral designed to block any effort to regulate the state’s private school voucher system is officially dead, after the Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that it violates the state Constitution.

Proposition 145 would have forbidden any voucher money from being taken from military families. But a hidden clause extended that prohibition to all other recipients of the Empowerment Scholarship Account program. And a separate provision would …

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