Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Yee has been chosen to participate in the Governing Institute’s Women in Government Leadership Program Class of 2018. The bipartisan national program is made up of elected women leaders from across the country who are chosen based on their service, courage and commitment to advancing government. The first class was established in 2014 and adds 25 new women each year. “I am honored to be selected to serve in this prestigious program to honor and

We all know about reading, writing and arithmetic, but have you ever thought about the importance of our children learning civics? Arizona is leading a push to make sure civics is apart of our curricula. In 2015, Governor Ducey and legislators made sure students had to pass a civics test to graduate from high school. That begins with this year’s senior class. Arizona was the first state in the nation to make this requirement. But years before that, in 2009, an Arizona legend

During the Senate Education Committee, Senator Yee explained how she originally helped draft a bill similar to SB1384 while she was in high school. A House committee has approved a proposal pushed by Republican state Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Yee expanding high school and college level journalists' protections from administrative censorship for work under their school-sponsored media. The House Committee on Education voted to advance Senate Bill 1384 on Monday. The legi