See what The Arizona Republic's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has drawn up lately. Establishes a requirement for certification in sport safety training for employment of interscholastic athletic coaches. Allows educational flexibility and empowerment contracts waiving certain statutory and administrative requirements as part of performance contract. Allows year-round posting of school session signage.

Provides for limitations on employer-paid health care premiums for public school employees. Creates zero budget for the multisection school aid bill. Requires adoption and implementation of local truancy policies by schools and prosecutors. Requires school districts to adopt student privacy policy to prohibit certain practices. Requires schools to establish policy prohibiting bullying.

Reinstates mandatory bilingual instruction in public education curricula. Revises school aid procedure to allow the per pupil allowance to follow a student who transfers after count day to apply to all districts and all pupils. Allow auditor general to audit public intermediate and local school districts. Provides for change in procedures for notification of teachers being convicted of certain offenses; discontinues salaries; and establishes Automated Fingerprint Identification System AFIS. Provides exemptions for operating mills under the qualified forest property tax. Revises the requirement for teachers to teach reading. Requires a conflict of interest policy for employees, board members, and officials of a public school academy. Eliminates health insurance for certain public employees from mandatory collective bargaining.

Prohibits school officials from censoring and provides for policies regarding student publications. Provides procedures for deemed status for before-and-after school programs. Provides for diploma seals for exemplary performance. Creates higher education enrollment option grant program for high school students. Eliminates the requirement of paying prevailing wage on public school projects. Revises certification to teach 6th grade to be included in both elementary and secondary education. Provides residential property tax exemption for property owners who as employees of boarding school must live on campus during academic year. Requires schools to provide alternatives for students with a moral objection to dissection. Requires the Department of Education to notify colleges of teacher loan forgiveness program. Allows school districts to be held harmless to levy millages at levels that would increase with the rate of inflation.

Removes community college retirees from public school employment retirement system. Allows use of Merit Award Scholarship to pay nursing school grants. Allows public school employees to name a second spouse as retirement beneficiary if first spouse predeceases him or her and naming of spouse as beneficiary if marriage occurs after retirement allowance effective date. Requires parent notification of students not making satisfactory progress. Requires driver education training schools to require a student to submit a certificate of good standing before undergoing segment 1 and segment 2 instruction. Check our our Weblog featuring daily commentary from well-connected Arizonans tapped into the politics of our state. Requires reduction in gap between highest and lowest foundation grants to K-12 schools to no more than 10 percent. Requires reporting on whether schools are providing financial education programs and evaluate the need for a mandate. Revises the requirement for copies of administrative rules to be filed with the secretary of state.