The state’s education sales tax – which supports teacher salaries – is not going away.
With more than enough votes, the state House and Senate agreed last week to extend for another 20 years the 0.6-cent sales tax first approved by voters in 2000. Without that action, the levy would self-destruct on June 30, 2021, taking with it the more than $670 million a year it now raises.
Gov. Doug Ducey signed it Monday – a few hours before a federal judge ruled as unconstitutional his use of state trust funds to settle a lawsuit over the state’s chronic underfunding of public education.
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