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PTA group withdraws support from Ducey’s teacher pay hike plan
Calling the governor’s plan not sustainable, the Arizona PTA has withdrawn its backing for Gov. Doug Ducey’s teacher pay hike plan.
Teachers to vote on strike, unhappy with pay raise offer
Arizona Educators United will hold a vote on whether to walk out of classrooms across Arizona this week.
Senate president to kill highly supported ELL bill
A bill to eliminate the state’s four-hour-a-day English language learning requirement for students whose second language is English has reached the Senate with nearly unanimous support, but Senate President Steve Yarbrough may kill it.
Teachers swarm Capitol, demand 20 percent pay hike
Save Our Schools Arizona is not only gearing up for a possible referendum on whatever lawmakers may replace existing voucher expansion legislation with but also for a potential initiative to address public education funding shortfalls.
Voucher expansion up for negotiation in Legislature
With all legal recourse exhausted, school choice advocates are weighing their legislative options to expand the state’s voucher program even as a referendum that could thwart their efforts looms.
Lawyer says Congressional blessing of Prop 123 not retroactive
The attorney for the man who sued to overturn Proposition 123 said Tuesday he's not buying the argument by Gov. Doug Ducey that last week's congressional action makes the withdrawal of more than $344 million from the state education trust retroactively legal.
Regents president Eileen Klein to step down as she meets personal goals at helm
In a statement released Monday, Klein gave no clear timeline for her departure or next moves, saying only that she would be leaving her position later this year “to take some time off before deciding what my next adventure will be.”
Ducey signs sales-tax extension, teachers call for more
Gov. Doug Ducey inked his approval Monday to extending the 0.6-cent sales tax for education until 2041 as an education group which helped pressure for legislative action is mapping out what it plans to do to get some new money into classrooms -- including a possible strike.
Sea of red engulfs Capitol as teachers protest
The protesters included dozens of teachers from nine schools in west Phoenix and Glendale who called in sick in the first job action teachers have called since organizing earlier this month.
School sales tax extension to be fast-tracked at Legislature
Arizona Senate President Steve Yarbrough said state lawmakers will fast track a bill to permanently extend a sales tax dedicated to public education through both chambers on Thursday.
Senate passes bill to regulate public school property sales
Nothing in HB 2460 requires a school district to sell or rent to anyone. But the bill says that once a property is offered for sale a lease, the district cannot pull it off the market "solely because a charter school or private school is the highest bidder.''
Arizona teachers not likely to mirror W. VA colleagues – yet
The head of the statewide teachers union said Wednesday a strike may be necessary to get salaries closer to where he believes they should be. But not this year.
