05-04-2018, 04:29 PM
(05-04-2018, 04:16 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: ArizonaThe kids didn't mind missing finals either.
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
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Teachers were really getting screwed here though. I'm happy they at least got something out of this. The reported average salary of 60k per year was off by about 38k according to a few friends I have in TUSD and AMPHI. The ONLY teachers making even close to 60K a year were teaching before most of the teachers today were born. Also, we had a naked guy on a bicycle riding around town with a "Red for Ed" sign on a trailer behind his bike. For whatever reason that guy was really popular with the ladies in the protests.