Hundreds of Ahwatukee families are preparing for one of Arizona’s most far-reaching political confrontations in history as public school teachers gear up for a walkout this Thursday.
The walkout will come a week after leaders of the #RedforEd movement reported that 78 percent of more than 57,000 teachers statewide cast paper ballots favoring a walkout – spurning Gov. Doug Ducey’s effort to defuse their threat and directly challenging the State Legislature’s decade-long stance on public education funding.
And for now anyway, the Legislature is in no mood to budge – even after Ducey on Friday vetoed 10 bills unrelated to education in an effort to force passage of his plan.