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Teacher Strikes and Education Cuts: Brought to You By Republican Governors Everywhere

Teachers in KY, AZ, OK Demand More Support for Schools This week, educators in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kentucky are attracting national attention with public demonstrations demanding more support for their schools. The states all suffer from chronically underfunded education systems that force their teachers to provide their own school supplies, take second jobs, switch to…

Governor Ducey And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

The Governor And His Allies Are Scared, And They Should Be The #RedforEd movement in Arizona is picking up steam and gaining national traction as teachers demand higher wages as they make the lowest salaries in the country. Now, Governor Ducey has to defend authorizing substantial pay raises for his staff while leaving teachers at…

Governor Ducey’s Education Debacle

Arizona Republic column: Ducey’s K-12 funding failure is ‘a serious threat to his re-election bid’ For the last week, educators across Arizona have been wearing #RedforEd in protest of funding cuts to education that have led to the lowest teacher pay in the nation. It took an organic movement for Governor Ducey to realize his policies…

Watch: Teachers Protest Gov. Ducey’s Education Failure

Arizona Has Lowest Teacher Pay in the Nation In case you missed it, 300 Arizona teachers protested Gov. Doug Ducey for his failure to adequately fund education in the state. Ducey’s cuts to education have resulted in the lowest teacher pay in the country, huge teacher shortages, and thousands more teachers who are untrained or…

Ducey Stays Silent Even After Arpaio Talks With Anti-Semitic Publication Five Times

What Will It Take For Governor Ducey To Do The Right Thing? National and Arizona Republicans are fretting about Joe Arpaio becoming the “next Roy Moore,” and with good reason. Yesterday, it was reported yesterday Sheriff Joe has given not one, not two, but five interviews to an anti-Semitic publication and “declined to criticize it…

Gosar Believes DACA Recipients Should Be Deported; Does Ducey Agree?

Prior to the State of the Union yesterday, Arizona Congressman and right wing iconoclast, Representative Paul Gosar stated any DACA recipients invited to the speech should be “arrested and deported.” The comment went viral and drew immediate bipartisan condemnation, from Speaker Paul Ryan to Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin. However, in Representative Gosar’s home state,…

Contrasts In Courage: Flake Denounces Sheriff Joe While Ducey Ducks

Sen. Jeff Flake Immediately Throws Cold Water On Sheriff’s Senate Bid But Gov. Doug Ducey Refuses To Discuss It Yesterday, Arizona saw one heckuva a contrast between two of their statewide leaders. When asked on CNN whether he would support Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Senator Flake quickly dismissed his nascent campaign saying: Senator Jeff Flake: “No, no,…

Ducey’s Groundwork Pays Off: Sheriff Joe Is Back

Governor Doug Ducey Supported President Trump’s Pardon, Setting Up Arpaio’s Comeback Arizonans believed the long-running national embarrassment that is Sheriff Joe Arpaio had been relegated to the dustbin of history. By a 2:1 margin, Arizonans opposed President Trump’s pardon of the Sheriff, but mostly they were thankful to no longer be the butt of late-night…

On Education, Governor Ducey’s State of the State Gets an F

Even After Staffer Pay Scandal, Ducey is Still All-Talk, No-Action on School Funding Today, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey delivered another State of the State full of hollow rhetoric and empty promises for Arizona teachers and students. Just last year, Ducey made similar grand pledges to prioritize education funding: “I want the teachers of our state…

Ducey Caught in Major Staffer Pay Scandal

Governor Giving Staff Huge Raises While Stiffing Teachers Teachers Remain Lowest Paid in the Nation Gov. Doug Ducey is under fire in Arizona for trying to sneak huge pay raises to his political inner circle while pushing a lean budget that fails to properly fund Arizona’s schools. In his State of the State speech earlier…

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