Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix Schools Implement District-Wide Participatory Budgeting- Phoenix, AZ

Participatory budgeting is used around the world to empower regular citizens to identify, discuss, and make decisions about public spending projects. In Phoenix this process has been used by individual schools to actively engage students in the financial decision-making process, where students have historically not had much influence. In 2017, Phoenix’s Union High School District implemented this concept on a larger scale, introducing a district-wide opportunity for participatory budgeting.