What is next for teacher pay in Arizona

As lawmakers are on break, work is going on behind the scenes on an
education-related bill that would raise teacher pay and maybe
provide constitutional protections for Arizona’s private-school
voucher program. Despite widespread agreement that the funding
stream from the trust fund should continue, how to get the plan
over the finish line is being hotly debated behind closed doors.
This will leave a new version of what is commonly called
Proposition 123 up to the voters, presumably in November 2026. But
will that be the most strategic way to handle the situation? This
week on The Gaggle, a politics podcast by The Arizona Republic
and azcentral.com, we analyze different ways Prop 123 2.0
could show up. Email us! ⁠⁠⁠thegaggle@arizonarepublic.com⁠⁠⁠ Leave
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and ⁠⁠⁠Tik Tok⁠⁠⁠. Guest: Lorna Romero Ferguson, owner of Elevate
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