I’d suggest clawing back some of the money Maricopa County had to pay for all of Sheriff Joe’s legal bills.
So after adjusting for cost of living, those raises would be more like 7, 2 and 2 percent? Sounds like the teachers are not being taken in by empty promises.
“…cash-starved state’s coffers…”
Arizona government is cash-starved only because they choose to be so.
Quality public services cost money. Pay up.
GOP: Free money. Mexico will pay for it.
Ayn Paul Ryan Rand: That will be the tax cuts I manufactured that will pay for all of it.
"“What he gave us today was just a proposal, it wasn’t legislation, and we don’t know where the money’s coming from and we don’t know if he’s talking about everybody involved in education or just classroom teachers,” Tucson teacher and Arizona Educators United organizer Derek Harris said. “At this point there’s not really anything to trust.”
There is the meat of it. Governor Douchebag (another millionaire elected to high office to plunder the coffers) and the AZ legislature are as trustworthy as drug addicts running a pharmacy.
20%? Hahaha…that’s awesome! Go go teachers!!!
Even when legislators and executives are trustworthy, they still need their feet held to the fire. But when they’re not, the rest of them too.
Oh goodie. Now they can count on bringing home 360/wk instead of 300 per week. They can buy more pencils for their students. Still have to live in the back of their cars though. So there’s that.
Just for comparison, what a summer job pays…
Douchey is hoping to hold back a tide. The AZ legislature, dominated by the cretins in Maricopa county are going to have to go along with this. We’ll see if the stupids in the Senate and House work to save their pathetic careers or find themselves kicked to the curb.
It is Arizona, so though I have several friends who are teachers there, I don’t hold out a lot of hope.
I have always wished that newspapers & the media would take classes in finance & accounting - but blame also probably goes to the parties involved who are seeking extra spin for their accomplishments - or to exaggerate the factors
this Three year deal that is structured like:
2018: 9% raise plus the additional 1%
2019: 5% raise
2020: 5% raise
is not really accurately / objectively described as a “20% raise” - yes, it can be said - but to omit the “spread over three yeas” and to omit the actual “per year” equivalent part is grossly misleading - interest, increases, and other matters expressed in % are more objective if there are presented as a annualized figures.
This agreement - just by simple calculations is mathematically really more like a 6.8% raise per year increase for the next three years (and that does not factor in cost of living - just pure math)
To steal from a movie where one of the characters was a Arizona Cardinal:
“Show me the money!”
That’s $50 million right there. The racial profiling case and the other cases of police abuse add up to that.