Out-of-state union bosses are trying to eliminate ESA scholarships for 100,000 Arizona students. The Biggs deal is the clean, fair answer. Tell your lawmakers to take it.
Four months ago, the Washington D.C.-based teachers union, The National Education Association, bankrolled a radical ballot initiative designed to destroy Arizona's ESA school choice program. Their goal: eliminate educational freedom for the more than 100,000 Arizona students currently benefiting from ESA scholarships.
A Democrat plan supported by the most radical, far left organizations in the state was floated that would require the legislature to claw back three pro-taxpayer and school choice measures it had already referred to the ballot: a measure preventing taxpayer dollars from subsidizing union political activity, a measure permanently protecting military family scholarships from government seizure, and a measure requiring that at least 60% of district school spending go directly into classrooms, not into administrative bloat. That plan would also impose harmful new regulations on the ESA program itself. It is a lopsided surrender that gives the unions almost everything they want while Arizona families get almost nothing in return.
Andy Biggs is pushing a better deal — one that is fair, equitable, and actually protects Arizona's school choice program. Under the Biggs proposal, the teacher unions drop their ballot initiative to decimate ESAs, and in exchange the legislature pulls back only one ballot measure: the one that would stop taxpayer dollars from subsidizing union activity. That's it. A clean one-for-one trade. No regulations on the program.
The Biggs deal protects every Arizona family currently using an ESA scholarship. Unlike the Democrat plan, it does not expose military family scholarships to future government seizure and it does not hand radical activists new regulatory weapons to strangle the ESA program over time. It simply neutralizes the out-of-state union threat without giving an inch on school choice itself.
Tell your lawmakers to stand firm. Saving ESAs means supporting the Biggs deal and rejecting any "deal" negotiated behind closed doors that requires adopting regulations on the ESA program.
This is a decisive moment for school choice in Arizona. Lawmakers who fold to union pressure now will hand out-of-state special interests a blueprint for dismantling educational freedom one deal at a time. Demand they stand firm.
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