The Arizona School Spending Portal is a first in the nation tool for Arizonans to understand how dollars are spent in schools. In 2017, A for Arizona worked with the Arizona Legislature to craft legislation requiring the state report public schools’ annual financial reports and school level financial data in a transparent fashion. The bill had an enactment date in 2021 so the state would have time to build the system. As A for Arizona worked on implementation, we quickly realized that a simple report from the state on how schools spend money was note enough, we needed a more user friendly option. In 2021, we went back to the legislature to establish the Arizona School Spending Portal, which would stand as its own tool for families, instead of a report on a department website. This tool lets constituents look up any public school in the state to see how their federal, state and local funding is spent. This shows breakdowns on how funding at the site level is being spent and how much is actually spent on the student. A for Arizona lead on focus groups, vendor selection and promoting the tool to families. After it’s launch in 2023, A for Arizona continues to lead on this project in promoting this tool to community members, working closely with agencies and constantly improving the tool to ensure it is the top operating system in the country.