House Speaker J.D. Mesnard was right to withdraw his bill requiring schools to use half of their inflation funding for teacher salary increases, and shouldn’t revive it. But he does raise an important question: Why isn’t there more upward pressure on teacher compensation at the school level?
Category Archives: State and local
How the court might dispose of a turkey of a case
How the Arizona Supreme Court might decide the case between the state and Tucson over guns and state shared revenues.
Legislature saves the best and worst for last
Legislature requires cities to hold tax increase elections when the most voters will participate, but gives new life to some indefensible tax giveaways.
State finances are still shaky
Time to consider a tax increase and broadening the sales tax base.
Options for when the state loses the school capital funding lawsuit
The state has a losing hand in the latest school funding lawsuit. Here are some options for the governor and Legislature to ponders, some of which the plaintiffs won’t like.
Another useless school grading system
The new school grading system adopted by the state ed board won’t help students improve or give useful information to parents and taxpayers.
Try legislating for a change
From fixing Obamacare to crafting a state budget, legislating as a process of discovery could reveal a democratic consensus.
Sinema and the politics of guilt by association
A pass for Sinema et al on Backpage.com contributions … except for one thing.
A tax incentive gets too big for its britches
The Legislature constrained the GPLET giveaway. The Goldwater Institute is aiming a legal bazooka intending to blow the whole thing up.
What Ducey has, and hasn’t, done on education
Ducey isn’t trying to destroy public education. But he is an obstacle to restoring funding cuts from the recession.