Highest paid public employees in AZ

[Abbey Marie]

Sassy, can you give some more examples of how the schools are under-funded there? I really want to understand. I don’t doubt you. Arizona may be different. Where we live the county and the state and the feds throw all kinds of money at the schools, give them free laptops, free breakfast and lunch all year long, bus the inner city kids to the suburbs and vice versa, yet things don’t improve.
I began to see that it isn’t a money problem. It’s either a “bad examples at home” problem, a “no father at home” problem, or both. IMO, there is no neighborhood so bad that having a family that values education and respects authority cannot overcome its influence.

[Kathianne]

Sassy, can you give some more examples of how the schools are under-funded there? I really want to understand. I don’t doubt you. Arizona may be different. Where we live the county and the state and the feds throw all kinds of money at the schools, give them free laptops, free breakfast and lunch all year long, bus the inner city kids to the suburbs and vice versa, yet things don’t improve.
I began to see that it isn’t a money problem. It’s either a “bad examples at home” problem, a “no father at home” problem, or both. IMO, there is no neighborhood so bad that having a family that values education and respects authority cannot overcome its influence.

Cost per pupil in my current hs district: $9500
Mr previous has district now: $19k
Almost exactly double.

[SassyLady]

Sassy, can you give some more examples of how the schools are under-funded there? I really want to understand. I don’t doubt you. Arizona may be different. Where we live the county and the state and the feds throw all kinds of money at the schools, give them free laptops, free breakfast and lunch all year long, bus the inner city kids to the suburbs and vice versa, yet things don’t improve.
I began to see that it isn’t a money problem. It’s either a “bad examples at home” problem, a “no father at home” problem, or both. IMO, there is no neighborhood so bad that having a family that values education and respects authority cannot overcome its influence.

Or being a border state is a problem. Plus, high level of poverty.

Arizona is one of eight states that does not increase funding to account for student poverty.

This article is from last year so things might have changed but I still think we're last in the nation.

https://edlawcenter.org/news/archives/other-states/how-to-improve-arizona%E2%80%99s-worst-in-the-nation-school-funding-system.html

[Abbey Marie]

Or being a border state is a problem. Plus, high level of poverty.

This article is from last year so things might have changed but I still think we're last in the nation.

[/FONT][/COLOR]https://edlawcenter.org/news/archives/other-states/how-to-improve-arizona%E2%80%99s-worst-in-the-nation-school-funding-system.html

The link isn’t “live”

[SassyLady]

The link isn’t “live”

https://edlawcenter.org/research/arizona/