Nine East Valley School Districts today announced they are suing the East Valley Institute of Technology over a long-running dispute about the money they say they’re entitled to for running Career and Technical Education programs on their high school campuses.

The suit, which was announced by a public relations firm but not yet officially recorded Monday with Maricopa County Superior Court, states millions of dollars are at stake as a result of their failure to reach new intergovernmental agreements (IGA) with EVIT for the current school year.

The agreements cover EVIT’s funding and supervision of the districts’ on-campus CTE programs involving over 26,000 juniors and seniors.

The districts are among the 11 that also send about 8,000 high school juniors and seniors to EVIT’s two Mesa ca

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