john fillmore
Posted Feb 18, 2022, 3:06 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Gay people, teachers, transgender students and F. Scott Fitzgerald are in the sights of Arizona Republicans, who seek to silence the politically and culturally disobedient.... Read more»
Posted Feb 16, 2022, 6:11 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A Republican bill that would bar the state from making the COVID-19 vaccine a requirement for school enrollment passed out of committee Tuesday and will next head to the full House for a vote.... Read more»
Posted Feb 4, 2022, 10:58 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
The Republican-controlled House passed a measure Thursday that would ban sexually explicit materials in K-12 classrooms across the state.... Read more»
Posted Feb 3, 2022, 12:36 pm
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
Arizona Republican lawmakers seek sovereignty over federal COVID mandates in a slate of new bills.
... Read more»
Posted Feb 1, 2022, 11:42 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Republicans are wistful for days gone past, and they’re determined to do everything they can to catapult the state backwards in pursuit of winding back the clock. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 28, 2022, 1:26 pm
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
After three consecutive years of Republican lawmakers championing a proposal to repeal the decades-old law that prohibits bilingual education for English-language learners in Arizona, it appears the effort won't get a push this legislative session.... Read more»
Sponsored by
Posted Jan 27, 2022, 7:30 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Lawmakers would have the power to reject election results under a sweeping piece of legislation sponsored by Republican Rep. John Fillmore that would make seismic changes to the way elections are conducted in Arizona. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2022, 6:17 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Republicans this week lined up behind a measure that would discipline teachers and open them up to lawsuits if they don’t tell parents everything a student tells them — even if the student confides that he or she is gay or transgender.... Read more»
Posted Jan 26, 2022, 9:59 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Republicans backed a bill that would ban books like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” “1984” and “The Great Gatsby” from Arizona schools because they contain frank descriptions of sex and sexuality - that critics say would effectively make it illegal to teach about homosexuality.... Read more»
Posted Mar 3, 2021, 1:58 pm
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
The Arizona Department of Education won’t act on a request from a Republican state lawmaker to take funding away from a Phoenix school district that serves low-income students because it adopted curriculum from “The 1619 Project,” which examines the legacy of slavery in the U.S. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 12, 2021, 1:36 pm
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
Republican state Reps. John Fillmore and Kevin Payne are both facing ethics complaints for anti-LGBTQ and discriminatory comments made Wednesday during a Government and Elections Committee meeting, including referring to the child of a community member testifying virtually as "it".... Read more»
Posted Feb 11, 2021, 12:50 pm
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
The proposal by Rep. John Fillmore would bar all Arizona state agencies, departments, boards or commissions from identifying an individual’s sex as anything other than male or female.... Read more»
Sponsored by
Posted Jan 7, 2020, 5:05 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A top Arizona Republican is pushing a trio of bills aimed at the transgender community, including penalizing schools for referring to a student by a pronoun that isn’t the gender associated with their biological sex. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 24, 2012, 10:10 am
Kellie Mejdrich
/Arizona-Sonora News Service
Some Arizona legislators want Bibles in the classroom, but state teachers could find themselves punished if they bring other texts into public and charter schools. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 1, 2011, 9:12 am
Rachel Jimenez
/Cronkite News Service
Requiring principals to have at least five years of experience in the classroom would enable them to better help teachers solve problems and enhance the effectiveness of Arizona’s public schools, a state lawmaker contends.... Read more»