Arizona

Can Partisan Gerrymandering be Stopped?

in Analysis, Legislation in Court, Legislative Operations, State Legislation

Attention to partisan gerrymandering has heightened as the next wave of redistricting fast approaches and the Supreme Court’s 2017-2018 docket included two cases regarding the constitutionality of partisan gerrymander. Following the release of the 2020 census, states will set out to redraw their district maps. States redistrict at least every ten years. The 2010 redistricting […]

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Arizona’s Teacher Strikes: The End or Just the Beginning?

in Analysis, Budget & Appropriations, State Legislation

For six school days in late April and early May, teachers across the state of Arizona walked out of their classrooms to demand better pay, more classroom funding, and other concessions from governor Doug Ducey (R) and the Republican-controlled state legislature. These teachers, inspired by similar walk-outs in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky, brought their […]

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