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YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Fri Jun 21 2024

Lorenzino Estrada | Digital Producer

Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day.

A third-party audit found more than a dozen financial practice deficiencies at the accommodation school district run by Maricopa County School Superintendent Steve Watson, including more than $200,000 of improperly mingled funds and an unlawful land sale worth millions.

More on how Maricopa County superintendent candidates responded to the audit findings and how the accommodation district might have to repay millions to the state.

Theme parks near Arizona: 10 most popular attractions

The teaser for the new “Jurassic World – The Ride” at Universal Studios Hollywood features its two dino-stars: Tyrannosaurus rex and Mosasaurus.

Universal Studios Hollywood

Arizonans are ready to beat the summer heat by hitting a theme park. But which one? A new study ranked the most popular theme parks. This is the theme park Arizonans want tickets to most.

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We’d love your feedback about the AZ Briefing. Email us at karen.kurtz@arizonarepublic.com.

Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1915: In Guinn v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court gave Black Oklahomans the right to vote when it declared unconstitutional the state’s Voter Registration Act of 1910, which had discriminated against Black people through its “grandfather clause” that allowed people whose grandfathers were entitled to vote in 1866 to register without passing a literacy test.
•	In 1923: Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey, who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement in New York, was sentenced to five years in prison after his conviction on mail fraud charges related to the sale of stock in the Universal Negro Improvement Association’s Black Star Line. Garvey said the charges were political.
•	In 1940: Italy tried but failed to invade France during the first Battle of the Alps in World War II.
•	In 1945: The Battle of Okinawa, the last major battle of World War II, ended as the bloodiest in the Pacific. It took nearly three months of U.S. ground forces fighting the Japanese to secure the island, which gave Allied forces an airbase to use for launching bombers to ramp up air strikes on Japan and helped Allied fleets blockade shipping routes. Over 12,500 U.S. service members were killed or missing, and 49,000 were wounded. Estimates of the Okinawan civilian death toll are as high as 150,000 and an estimated 110,000 Japanese died trying to defend the island.
•	In 1964: The U.S. House adopted the Civil Rights Act and passed it to the Senate, which approved the measure on July 2, 1964, the same day President Lyndon Johnson signed it. The landmark law pushed by President John Kennedy before he was assassinated prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for integrating schools and other public facilities, and made workplace discrimination illegal.
•	In 1989: In Texas v. Johnson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning an American flag is a form of protest that’s protected symbolic free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution. The court found protester Gregory Johnson had been wrongfully convicted for burning a flag outside the 1984 Republican National Convention.

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AZ Briefing: AZ Briefing: Schools office had ‘ineffective’ budgeting, audit says

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