Republicans back plan to force more classroom spending by threatening funding cuts

By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: April 1, 2026

Words: 1,859

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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More than 1,000 teachers walked away from the profession last year, the latest fallout from the state’s yearslong inability to keep teachers in the classroom. To address that, Republicans don’t want to boost school funding to increase salaries, but instead want to force school districts to spend the majority of their existing budgets on classroom expenses.

But that won’t actually solve the problem, public education advocates say.

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