The campaign for the Invest in Education Act prepares to submit its petitions on July 2, 2020. Photo courtesy Stand for Children Arizona/Twitter.
More than 435,000 Arizonans signed the Invest in Education petition. That’s an enormous number considering the majority of the signatures were gathered during a pandemic, when Arizonans spent most of their time locked indoors and away from public events.
But the nearly half a million voters who wanted a chance to vote for increased funding for public education were overruled by one individual: Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury.
Coury’s name is one that public education supporters won’t soon forget, especially this November when he’s up for a retention vote that determines whether he stays on the bench.
Last week, he booted Invest in Ed from the ballot, claiming its 100-word summary failed to include, in detail, every single provision in the measure.