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ARIZONA CAPITOL TIMES CONTRIBUTING ARTICLE
BY JEREMY DUDA
Ducey to Roll Out ‘Enhanced’
Achievement District Plan in 2016
Gov. Doug Ducey’s signature education initiative from the that opportunity arose, our focus zeroed in on that,” Ducey
2015 legislative session has been slow in getting off the ground, spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said. “And obviously now, having
largely owing to the off-session focus on setting the long- passed that package through special session … education policy
running K-12 funding lawsuit. staff are back at the table working out the details of this plan.”
But the governor plans to unveil an “enhanced” plan in his Scarpinato indicated that the achievement district plan will
next State of the State address for his Arizona Public School be expanded from Ducey’s original proposal, “To the extent that
Achievement District program. our office believes this will do more, will help more schools and
The Ninth Floor had long stated its intention to unveil details more students than we originally envisioned.” He would not
of the plan late in 2015. But summer and fall negotiations provide further details.
over the Cave Creek v DeWit lawsuit, which culminated in an “We are making progress on the details of how to expand our
October special session, shifted the achievement district plan best schools. We’re looking at an enhanced plan, and we’ll have
to the back burner. Now that a settlement has been reached, more in the new year,” he said.
pending a May 8 special election, Ducey’s focus has returned to
the achievement district plan.
“It was important to resolve the lawsuit before moving CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
on to some of these other policy areas in K-12. And when
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