Republicans Are Gutting Arizona’s Public Colleges to Save Some Corporate Tax Cuts

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/03/09/arizona_budget_deal_the_state_is_gutting_public_colleges_to_save_some_corporate.html
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"This weekend, Arizona Republicans resumed a long-running assault on their state's public colleges and universities when legislators passed a new budget that slashed $99 million, or 14 percent, from higher education spending. The deal marked a milestone of sorts. Aside from yet another round of steep across-the-board cuts, the lawmakers agreed to eliminate all appropriations for community colleges in Arizona's two largest counties, leaving the schools to survive on a combination of local funding and tuition dollars. States have long been withdrawing their help for community colleges. In the Southwest, the GOP has now brought that trend to its logical-yet-extreme conclusion."
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On top of that, the GOP has continued it's attack on K-12 funding of public schools - now one of the worst funded in the country.

Arizona Republicans are just winning their "War on Education". War would suggest some ability to fight back, but this is more like a massacre.