Pima County drains library reserves for PEEPs preschool. Reserves hit zero by 2028. Who built this ticking clock—and what you can do before June 16.
🔥 They Killed Tucson’s Preschool Tax in 2017. Now They’re Raiding the Library to Replace It — And the Money Runs Out in Two Years.
⏰ Pima County’s Library Reserves Are Headed to Zero. You Have Until June 16 to Do Something About It.
by Three Sonorans
In 2017, Tucson’s business elite helped kill a voter-approved preschool tax that would have generated $50 million a year for early childhood education. Eight years later, those same interests helped engineer a backdoor preschool program that’s quietly bankrupting the public library, and the woman who built the scheme is retiring before the bill comes due.
Somewhere in Tucson right now, 1,552 children are in preschool classrooms because of it. In about two years, the money runs out. And nobody in power is being straight with you about what happens next…