#RedForEd marchers as they moved toward the Capitol in April 2018 as part of a protest over low teacher pay. Photo by Jesse Stawnyczy | Cronkite News
This legislative session will go down in history as one gigantic missed opportunity.
Thanks in part to record federal spending and the passage of a skinny budget last year, legislators faced a more than billion-dollar revenue surplus.
Our Republican-led legislature could have done what they, Gov. Doug Ducey and our so-called business leaders promised for years that they would do, if only there was enough money in the budget: restore the cuts to classrooms and make our schools whole.
But they said NO.
Over and over and over again, Republicans — with the blessing of Ducey and his chamber of commerce cronies — said NO.