Squeeze those AZ taxpayers so they can keep spending $2.4Billion annually on their illegal alien population.
Texas is currently squeezing its taxpayers for the $11 Billion we pay, while CA is the most generous of all, with a whopping $23 Billion.
Democrats think this is fine as long as it buys them future voters. Republicans are the really stupid ones to go along with this suicidal scam.
This type of behavior on the part of Ducey, is why no-one should expect an actual conservative to be appointed by Ducey when McCain dies.
The real answer to fixing education is to remove all illegals, cut k-4 elementary class sizes to 12 kids, add teaching assistants to classes with special needs students or those on free and reduced lunch ( the underperforming group on benchmark tests).
Now, for teacher pay, all states have longevity and educational pay raises built in to their pay schedules. In poor Arkansas teachers receive 2.5 % for breathing another year and 2.5% every time they increase their graduate hours by 15 hours.
For the industrious teacher, a professional in their craft, one can be personally responsible for an annual pay increase of 5%.
When states raise teacher pay above the legislatively approved pay schedules the impact is not to the current budget, but to the retirement system. Most educational schedules are designed for an educator to work thirty years and then retire. About twenty years in longevity stops increasing and is usually increased through COLA increases or minimum 1-1.5% increases.
As in the military or gov service, retirement is usually based somewhere around 50% of highest three years pay. In Arkansas for instance this would mean a starting teacher @ $35,000 would fill all squares, teach thirty years, retire having earned about $70,000 their top three years ( with Masters and Doctorate).
To read between the lines, a public school teacher will retire with a check roughly equal to their entry salary when they began teaching.
When school boards or other gov agencies increase pay outside of changing legislative pay scales, they blow up the retirement systems down the road.
The public schools are inundated with customers (students) they should not be servicing, are not budgeted for, and cannot properly service. The result is again, the liberal premise that we must keep and maintain a permanent underclass in society for any number of reasons for strung out or perverted thinkers ( using this term loosely, very loosely).
What would be wrong with an educational system that taught all students to read proficiently and think critically? Perhaps crime would all but disappear, heaven forbid, this would kill the prison systems, layoffs, No Lawyer Fees, Fewer Judges, No Bond agents, no ‘Tough on crime’ political position to take. Graduates that can read their diplomas (The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The Declaration of Independence) and have the skills for a global economy centered in America!
This is why President Trump is hated, he has large vision and big dreams. Anything is possible in the mind of a True American. Change your thinking, change your future, MAGA!