Arizona teachers could lose the right to strike, organize under new GOP proposals

By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: February 18, 2026

Words: 1,436

Last Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Arizona’s largest teacher’s union is sounding the alarm over Republican-backed legislation that it says threatens public school funding and the ability of teachers to exercise their first amendment rights.

Marisol Garcia, the president of the Arizona Education Association, which represents more than 22,000 public school employees, lambasted the GOP-controlled legislature for attacking teachers instead of working to improve the state’s public education system.

“This legislature should be talking about: ‘How do we keep …

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