Proposition 320’s potential impact on Flagstaff Unified School District and AZ schools
Abigail Kessler and Jesselle Ortegon, Arizona Daily Sun Staff Reporters
Rich Nickel, president and CEO of Education Forward Arizona, said Arizona voters should be questioning their local education leaders about what these “trade-offs” might look like in certain categories of operational spending.
While Proposition 320 would require schools to spend at least 60% of their operational spending on “direct instructional spending,” this has not yet been clearly defined in the proposal. This leaves districts and schools with the uncertainty of what will need to be possibly cut or added to their annual budget if the proposition was passed.
According to Nickel, schools provide a broad amount of essential services for student success that may not necessarily fall under direct instructional expenses.