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Parents rallied outside a Scottsdale Unified board meeting to demand that Carine Werner resign her school board seat over a hot mic remark about a district employee, and Werner did not attend.

The Arizona Mirror profiles the Legislative District 4 House race, where Republican Reps. Matt Gress and Pamela Carter face Democrats Karen Gresham and Tammy Caputi, with control of the Arizona House at stake.

Opportunity Arizona speakers asked the 25 Republicans who took money from a charter school CEO's PAC to return it, and Judy Schwiebert called out Sen. Shawnna Bolick for her $1,000; the complaint and the attorney general's investigation are aimed at the PAC.

The Arizona Attorney General's Office is investigating the Educational Freedom Fund PAC over alleged illegal corporate contributions; the story lists 25 Republican recipients, including Shawnna Bolick, Matt Gress, Carine Werner and Janae Shamp, but does not accuse any of them of wrongdoing.

Public school advocates are calling for a House Ethics investigation of Rep. Matt Gress, who denies their conflict of interest allegations.

Sen. Carine Werner and Scottsdale Unified nutrition director Patti Bilbrey disagree over whether Werner apologized for remarks about Bilbrey's appearance.

A petition asking Sen. Carine Werner to resign her Scottsdale Unified board seat passed 1,500 signatures, the Arizona Capitol Times reported.

Protesters at a Scottsdale Unified board meeting called for Carine Werner to resign her school board seat over a hot mic remark about a district employee.

KJZZ reports that Carine Werner, a Scottsdale Unified board member and state senator, was heard during a public meeting calling a district employee morbidly obese.

While a number of Arizona Republican officeholders publicly backed away last month from a Christmas-themed political gathering after learning it was hosted by a group with documented ties to white nationalism, one local public official did attend and was photographed alongside a nationally known political operative. Jeremiah Cota, a board member of the Phoenix Union High School District, attended “The Christmas Crusade,” an event organized by Republicans for National Renewal

The Paradise Valley Unified School District board voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt a “statement of charges” against its superintendent, Todd Cummings, setting in motion plans to fire him unless he requests a hearing within ten days. The decision comes after only a few months in the job. Cummings was placed on paid administrative leave on September 30 following a closed-door board meeting that cited unspecified complaints and employment concerns. In the months since, an

Arizona voters have short memories, but sometimes, the past doesn’t stay buried for long. Take Michael Todd, now a familiar name again as the embattled board president of Liberty Elementary School District. The same man who’s facing a recall effort from furious parents and educators today is the very same Michael Todd whose “family troubles” dominated front pages back in 2008, when he was running for mayor of Buckeye. At the time, Todd was a self-proclaimed “family man” who a

Conservatives who care about principle and accountability need to take a hard look at the record of Tom Horne. Credentials and slogans do not tell the story of a leader. Behavior does. And anyone thinking of backing him again should know exactly what they are buying: a long list of controversies that never truly disappeared. Let’s start at the beginning. In 2010, while Horne was on his way up and positioning himself to become Arizona’s Attorney General, decades-old baggage re

Arizona’s school voucher debate has been framed as a fight over freedom, parents versus bureaucrats, choice versus control. The talking points sound good, but anyone paying attention knows the situation has gone far beyond slogans. The battle over the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program has revealed a serious crisis at the intersection of politics, profit, and ideology without accountability. The internal split inside the Arizona GOP made that clear this summer when