An order has been issued by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dean Fink prohibiting the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) from receiving back nearly $5.9 million in refunds for state aid that ADE claims the Arizona charter schools should not have received, reports the Arizona Daily Star.
The dispute is in regards to Arizona’s Proposition 301, which raised the state sales tax in order to give more funding to public schools, including charter schools Tucson on a per-pupil basis. The court decided the original payments made were within the statute guidelines, and ADE cannot later reinterpret the law.
If the Judges decision had gone in favor of Arizona Department of Education, those refunds would have certainly had a drastic affect on all the students at AmeriSchools Academy grade "A" schools campuses and the quality of education we strive to provide in our curriculum.
AmeriSchools Academy is a division of The Charter Foundation, Inc., a system of Arizona Charters Schools. We provide campus locations in Phoenix, Tucson & Yuma. Visit our website to enroll your child online!
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