"“We have the worst pay in the nation for our teachers,” he continued, but pay is just the tip of the iceberg. Arizona teachers have been struggling with years of divestment from Republican governors who slashed education funding to pay for tax cuts. Thomas dates the worst of Arizona’s tax cuts back to the reaction to the 2008 Great Recession. “Before the recession, we were spending $1,000 more a student on supplies, teacher salaries and staff hirings and building repair, all of the money that goes into that.”"
It is interesting here how long-term conservative contempt (I don't know what else you can call it) for public sector works simply became too open since the great recession. They seemed to feel that they could treat them like crap and that workers themselves WOULDN'T NOTICE! What shockers! -- Nuggetsman
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