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Arizona public schools: “Do we ask our people to work for free for the last few months of the year?”

The Arizona State Legislature is refusing to allow school districts to spend more money than they were originally allocated in 1980, even though the revenue (which was generated by taxing the very wealthy) has already been overwhelmingly approved by Arizona voters. This has happened before and has never been a problem, but now, apparently, the Legislature of the great state of Arizona is playing footsie with the idea of seeing what would happen if schools went bankrupt on March 1st. A quote from a literal news article is: “'Basically, we’d have to cut two months worth of operation from our budget starting in March. Look at our options. Eighty-five percent of our budget is salary and benefits. Do we ask our people to work for free for the last few months of the year?' said Hector Encinas, the CFO for Sunnyside Schools.” I hate to say it, but I will…


The Arizona State Legislature is refusing to allow school districts to spend more money than they were originally allocated in 1980, even though the revenue (which was generated by taxing the very wealthy) has already been overwhelmingly approved by Arizona voters. This has happened before and has never been a problem, but now, apparently, the Legislature of the great state of Arizona is playing footsie with the idea of seeing what would happen if schools went bankrupt on March 1st.

A quote from a literal news article is: “'Basically, we’d have to cut two months worth of operation from our budget starting in March. Look at our options. Eighty-five percent of our budget is salary and benefits. Do we ask our people to work for free for the last few months of the year?' said Hector Encinas, the CFO for Sunnyside Schools.”

I hate to say it, but I will not be working for free.

https://www.kold.com/2022/02/07/arizona-public-schools-concerned-over-possible-12-billion-budget-cuts/

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