AZEdUnited

70,000+ Educators and our Supporters #WEnotME. We are Arizona Educators United (AEU) and we are forever #REDforED.

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

Leave Twitter just because it’s going bankrupt and hemorrhaging staff?

Babe, I’m a teacher in Arizona.

[Kathy Hoffman @kathyhoffman_az]

From 900 students for every one school counselor to 651 students per school counselor in just four years, every single investment in our students' mental health and wellbeing counted.

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

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[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

Lawmakers have decisions to make re vouchers. The average voucher (ESA) cost to state general fund is $11,000+. Total in AZ is 6X higher than projected. Nonpartisan JLBC: "We've never really faced this circumstance before. You've got this requirement but it isn't funded."@12News

[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

🧵"We keep hearing it's never enough." Some legislators complain about K-12 funding (Majority Whip Sine Kerr latest example in release). This is an understandable frustration. Some even voted "no" on lifting AEL based on this frustration. But context is everything. @12news

[David Cook @RepDavidCook]

The Arizona House of Representatives today approved my legislation to raise the AEL this year, so our schools can fully access the funds that the Legislature already appropriated for them. Here's my statement on why passing #HCR2001 was so important for rural schools.

[Deirdre🍎🌵💙🌊 @azdedo]

When I started teaching I brought home 850 and got a one bedroom for 650.

NOW, teachers bring home maybe 1100 and one bedrooms are 1600.

This is why single young teachers won’t teach in AZ. @AZGOP @azdemparty

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

Imagine having to STILL repeal a law that Arizona voters TWICE demanded never be a law.

It is WE the People of Arizona that delegate power to the AZ Legislature. Not the other way around.

Stop stealing our taxpayer funds to give to private schools and rich political donors.

[The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer]

JUST IN: @GovernorHobbs releases a $17.1 Billion FY2024 executive budget, $2.1 Billion of which is one-time spending initiatives.

It adds $274 million in K-12 investments partially funded by a repeal of universal ESAs (vouchers).

Read it here: https://t.co/BQ0z62Xnzg

[David Lujan @DavidLujan]

Today's JLBC report shows the state's revenue surplus has disappeared. $2 billion in tax cuts for the rich and using tax dollars to subsidize private school education will do that.

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

Thank you @Supt_Hoffman!

[Kathy Hoffman @Supt_Hoffman]

When I first ran for office, I said that our public schools needed a relentless optimist. I’m proud to say at the end of this journey as State Superintendent, that my optimism has only grown through the work we have accomplished at ADE.

[Cataholic @jrreills]

@AZEdUnited So should they start banning nicknames too and start making teachers refer to students only by their given names? No difference… Stop ostracizing our children!

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

The only pronoun they should be concerned about is WE.

It is WE the People that are tired of these worthless, overly dramatic, bigoted wastes of time. Our kids desire funding and real solutions. Not witch-hunts targeting children for what they want to be called at school. Shame

[LOOKOUT @lookoutphx]

Arizona Republicans, who platformed on heavily anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, have proposed a bill banning students from using their preferred pronouns. The sponsor of the bill is state Sen. @JohnKavanagh_AZ. This is the first bill they have put out for next session.

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

We deserved Kathy Hoffman. Thank you for your service to our children and our schools.

[Kathy Hoffman @Supt_Hoffman]

As my final act in office, I’m proud to announce a $6.75 million investment in school meals. Students qualifying for reduced-price meals will have their fees waived beginning in January through the end of school year 2023-2024.

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

Couldn’t resist one last chance to steal from Arizona’s children. #Dueces

[Capitol Media Services 📢 Telling it like it is @azcapmedia]

Lame-duck @DougDucey now putting other conditions on call for special session to waive aggregate expenditure limit for schools, a move that @seanbowie says wasn't the deal and reflects the fact that this is last hurrah for GOP for 4 years. https://t.co/PpaUFGGDWo

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

❝Arizona lawmakers refused to add a cap to the universal voucher expansion, so there is zero limit to how much funding can be stripped from Arizona’s public schools and siphoned to unaccountable, unregulated private schools.❞

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

“Facts are stubborn things.” JA

[Andrea Dalessandro @Dalessandro4AZ]

For email & phone number for AZ Legislators please go to the Rosters at https://t.co/xJBQEfb0oy
Contact Governor Ducey | Office of the Arizona Governor (https://t.co/k2svMpJ4yi) Phoenix 602 542 4331 Tucson 520 628 6580 You can leave a comment for Governor at either number.

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

This.

@DougDucey: Time to step up for Arizona’s children.

They deserve it.

[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

1/ NEW: Superintendents representing 98% of AZ public school district students send Dec. 1st letter to Gov Ducey to call AEL special session: "We can’t stress enough the seriousness of this issue and the potential devastating impact on traditional public schools." Why...
@12news

[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

🧵AZ's 2 top Democratic lawmakers say Governor Ducey made a verbal commitment on the night of June 22nd he would call a special session after the election to address the AEL spending cap. The cap causes financial uncertainty for public school districts.
@12News

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

Congratulations to Governor @katiehobbs. #REDforED ❤️

[AZEdUnited @AZEdUnited]

In Arizona we believe in what our Constitutional Framers wrote in the Preamble: “We the People.”

If the @AZGOP want to win elections they should stop stealing from our children to fill the coffers of the wealthy.

We, the people of Arizona, deserve better. #REDforED

[Yvonne Wingett Sanchez @yvonnewingett]

Maricopa Co Supervisor @billgatesaz in response to @pnjaban, @GOP @AZGOP: "The criticism from the Republican National Committee and Republican Party of Arizona is one more political stunt to try and distract us. This will not happen."