By Jessica Votipka | Arizona Agenda
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne and his opponent in the GOP primary, state Treasurer Kimberly Yee, are taking up all the oxygen in the race to be Arizona’s next schools chief.
Their spats over the school voucher program and DEI, alongside the larger power struggle within the Republican Party, have overshadowed the two Democrats running for a spot in the general election: Teresa Leyba Ruiz and Brett Newby.
So, the Agenda reached out to Ruiz and Newby to hear what they had to say. (By the way, we also reached out to Horne and Yee and … crickets.)
Here is a breakdown of our conversations with the two Democrats on the July 21 primary ballot — and some insight as to what this prominent position entails.
