Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know Arizona teachers are struggling.
Our educators are some of the lowest paid in the nation. Even after a recent round of pay raises, elementary teacher pay still ranks 49th nationally, which is the same ranking prior to #RedForEd.
The pay is so dismal that we’re in our fifth consecutive year of a massive teacher shortage crisis, one that has left more than 1,400 classrooms without a full-time teacher and thousands more led by untrained teachers.