Arizona educators will walk out April 26
PHOENIX – Arizona educators overwhelmingly voted to walk out to demand higher pay, Red for Ed leaders announced Thursday night.
Speaking in front of the Phoenix headquarters of the Arizona
Education Association, organizers from Arizona Educators United, one of
the grassroots groups backing teachers, said 78 percent of the 57,000
voting educators supported the walkout.The organizers cited 10 years of “drastically underfunded schools”
that resulted in “overcrowded classrooms, crumbling infrastructure and
low wages for educators.”“After years of starving our schools, some classes are stuffed with
kids, while others sit empty because there isn’t a teacher to teach,”
association organizer and Littleton elementary school teacher Noah
Karvelis said in a statement. “The #RedforED movement has provided
educators the opportunity to voice what action they want to take in an
historic statewide vote.”