PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers voted Tuesday to make an end run around the budget by shifting around some money to fund public and private school vouchers for some students. On an 8-3 vote, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee directed state schools Superintendent Tom Horne to take $5 million out of the funding for public schools and use it instead to finance the voucher programs, which were left out of the $9.9 billion budget.

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August 13th, 2008

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