House Democrats Statement on Supreme Court Ending the Protect Education Act

PHOENIX – House Democratic Leader Oscar De Los Santos and Assistant House Democratic Leader Nancy Gutierrez released the following statement after the Arizona Supreme Court struck Proposition 212 the Protect Education Act from the November ballot. 

"We would like to thank the hundreds of volunteers who carried petitions for the Protect Education Act and the hundreds of thousands of voters who signed in favor of common-sense guardrails for Arizona's out-of-control $1 billion ESA voucher program. Cowardly Republicans worked overtime and spared no expense to protect the rampant fraud, waste and abuse of ESA private school vouchers, and a majority on the Supreme Court ruled in their favor. They can celebrate, but House Democrats and the millions of Arizonans we represent will never stop our efforts to restore accountability for Arizona tax dollars being squandered on this wasteful program. This was a disappointing result, but with hope of a new and more fiscally responsible legislative majority on the horizon, the work was not in vain."