{"id":576189,"date":"2023-05-26T22:42:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/arizona-gov-hobbs-says-predecessor-misappropriated-50m\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T22:42:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:42:45","slug":"arizona-gov-hobbs-says-predecessor-misappropriated-50m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/arizona-gov-hobbs-says-predecessor-misappropriated-50m\/","title":{"rendered":"#Arizona Gov. Hobbs says predecessor misappropriated $50M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/Ducey-Hobbs.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) said her predecessor, Republican Doug Ducey, mis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriated $50 million that the federal government provided to the state through the American Rescue Plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/azgovernor.gov\/office-arizona-governor\/news\/2023\/05\/governor-hobbs-announces-determination-ducey-era-grant-esas\">said in a release Friday<\/a> that Ducey made the grant to the state treasurer in the final hours of his administration to fund all-day kindergarten for student recipients of empowerment scholarship accounts, which <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azed.gov\/esa\">allow for parents to use<\/a> the money they would pay in taxes for education to send their student to the school that they choose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But the memo notes that the state only funds half-day kindergarten for students in public school. Axios <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/phoenix\/2023\/05\/26\/hobbs-federal-covid-money-illegally-used-for-kindergarten-grants\">reported that the money<\/a> was supposed to be used for the next three academic years but was not provided to the state Department of Education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllegally giving $50 million to private schools while failing to properly invest in public education is just one egregious example of the previous administration\u2019s blatant disregard for public school students,\u201d Hobbs said. \u201cI will always fight to protect our public schools and work to give every Arizona student the education they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we averted a violation of federal law and the State Constitution,\u201d she added. \u201cIn my administration, we are committed to deploying federal funds lawfully and equitably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The release also states that the grant violates multiple state constitutional provisions, including ones on equal protection, a gift clause and maintenance of \u201ca <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> and uniform\u201d public school system. It claimed that the grant also violates the American Rescue Plan because it does not address educational disparities, as the grant agreement claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The office said it is exploring alternatives for a legal use of the funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, into law in March 2021 to provide funding for direct $1,400 payments to most Americans, vaccine distribution, school reopenings, upgraded unemployment benefits and state and local governments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Katie Hobbs (D) said her predecessor, Republican Doug Ducey, misappropriated $50 million that the federal government provided to the state through the American Rescue Plan.\u00a0 Hobbs said in a release Friday that Ducey made the grant to the state treasurer in the final hours of his administration to fund all-day kindergarten for student&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":576190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/Ducey-Hobbs.png?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,134405,139252,134353,139529,136118,143603,143604,134661,73014,135568,143605,115,134345],"class_list":["post-576189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-american-rescue-plan","tag-business-economy","tag-court-battles","tag-defense-national-security","tag-doug-ducey","tag-education-funding","tag-empowerment-scholarship-accounts","tag-energy-environment","tag-health-care","tag-katie-hobbs","tag-misappropriation","tag-news","tag-state-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}