Arizona public schools struggle to fill teaching positions as leaders brainstorm school staffing solutions

Public school educators say they are some of the most underpaid and overworked employees in the country. In 2023, Educators for Excellence polled thousands of teachers about their experiences and workloads and...

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Work in progress: teacher pay raise plan gets initial OK

Republican lawmakers’ plan to increase teacher pay by extending Proposition 123, which uses state land trust funds, passed out of a Senate committee Wednesday. The passage came with a caveat that...

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Yee pans Hobbs Prop 123 extension proposal

Gov. Katie Hobbs announced her plan to extend Proposition 123 and increase the percentage allocated from the state’s land trust to 8.9% to fund schools, raise teacher and school staff...

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Successor to Prop 123 needed to preserve K-12 education funding

Arizona voters in a 2016 special election passed Proposition 123, which increased investment in K-12 education by billions of dollars and ended a long, complicated and expensive lawsuit over previous...

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Senate, House Republicans pitch plan to renew Proposition 123 and use millions for teacher pay

Senate and House Republicans announced a plan to renew Proposition 123 via voter referendum and allocate the $300 million or so from the land trust endowment solely to teacher pay. ...

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Next governor won’t need congressional approval to use school trust fund account

The next governor of Arizona will not have to first obtain congressional approval before raiding a special school trust fund account, the state Court of Appeals...

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Court rules state must ask Congress to tap trust fund for schools

Gov. Doug Ducey or whoever succeeds him can’t conduct a future financial raid on a school trust fund account without first getting congressional approval, a judge has ruled. In a...

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Ducey may have violated campaign law in talk with business leaders

Doug Ducey Gov. Doug Ducey may have violated a state law prohibiting politicians from campaigning with state resources when he encouraged business owners on September 29...

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Education ballot measure no place for obscurity, euphemism

(Photo by Ryan Cook/RJ Cook Photography) In what some education supporters see as a cruel blow, the Superior Court recently denied placement of the Invest in...

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9th Circuit takes Ducey’s side in school fund case

A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that could have affected the ability of Gov. Doug Ducey and future governors to tap a special education trust account to funnel...

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Gov. Ducey’s attack on judge out of line

Gov. Doug Ducey, the self-proclaimed “Education Governor” has unfairly lashed out at Judge Neil V. Wake for his ruling on the Proposition 123 enactment. In 2018, Gov. Doug Ducey signed...

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Ducey attacks character of judge who ruled against him

In this file photo, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, following...

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Arizona public schools struggle to fill teaching positions as leaders brainstorm school staffing solutions

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Work in progress: teacher pay raise plan gets initial OK

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Yee pans Hobbs Prop 123 extension proposal

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Successor to Prop 123 needed to preserve K-12 education funding

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Senate, House Republicans pitch plan to renew Proposition 123 and use millions for teacher pay

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Next governor won’t need congressional approval to use school trust fund account

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Court rules state must ask Congress to tap trust fund for schools

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Ducey may have violated campaign law in talk with business leaders

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Education ballot measure no place for obscurity, euphemism

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9th Circuit takes Ducey’s side in school fund case

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Gov. Ducey’s attack on judge out of line

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Ducey attacks character of judge who ruled against him

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