By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club |
For years now, we’ve heard the same old talking points from the left when it comes to our state’s schools. It always goes a little something like this:
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- Education is underfunded in Arizona…
- Teachers aren’t paid enough…
- We need to raise taxes to pay our teachers more…
Do these lines sound familiar? They should. Anytime a new proposition is rolled out to voters, teachers’ unions and other liberals push this same narrative. We heard it when they campaigned for Prop 208 a couple years ago. And despite the fact that the Arizona Supreme Court struck down Prop 208 because Arizona is already funding schools at historic levels, we continue to hear it from Red4Ed and others as they target the state’s $1.8 billion tax cuts.
That’s what makes the latest news out of Mesa Public Schools (MPS) even more outrageous.