05-04-2018, 04:16 PM
Arizona
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Teachers working in the Grand Canyon State should be proud.
They did not get everything they were demanding during their week-long walkout, but they got a well-deserved 20% raise and an additional $138 million in school funding.
Like the other four states that have seen teacher uprisings this year, Arizona’s schools have lost a significant amount of state funding since the recession, when states were forced to cut budgets across the board.
The state did little to restore funding to schools after the economy recovered, and Arizona enacted a corporate tax cut that continued to deplete school revenue.
When adjusted for inflation, Arizona cut total state per-pupil funding by 37 percent between 2008 and 2015, more than any other state. That led to relatively low teacher salaries, crumbling school buildings and the elimination of free full-day kindergarten in some districts.
Story: http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/s...k=otl0T3ei
Teachers working in the Grand Canyon State should be proud.
They did not get everything they were demanding during their week-long walkout, but they got a well-deserved 20% raise and an additional $138 million in school funding.
Like the other four states that have seen teacher uprisings this year, Arizona’s schools have lost a significant amount of state funding since the recession, when states were forced to cut budgets across the board.
The state did little to restore funding to schools after the economy recovered, and Arizona enacted a corporate tax cut that continued to deplete school revenue.
When adjusted for inflation, Arizona cut total state per-pupil funding by 37 percent between 2008 and 2015, more than any other state. That led to relatively low teacher salaries, crumbling school buildings and the elimination of free full-day kindergarten in some districts.
Story: http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/s...k=otl0T3ei