Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne expressed his displeasure with Gov. Katie Hobbs for vetoing a bill that would have provided more transparency into school superintendents’ earnings.
The Democratic governor vetoed House Bill 2075, which would have required Arizona school districts to publicly disclose contracts and compensation data for their superintendents and other top administrators. The bill also mandated that the state create a centralized, searchable and public database containing all this information.
Currently compensation packages for school superintendents "are only publicly available through a public records request," said Chris Thomas, director of legal strategy for education policy at the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute.
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