Title: Arizona’s teacher salaries rank among the lowest – Arizona Capitol Times
Headings: Arizona’s teacher salaries rank among the lowest
Arizona’s teacher salaries rank among the lowest
Content: One place Arizona is not in the bottom 10 is in what WalletHub calls teacher wage disparity. Gonzalez said this is the difference between salaries at the 90th percentile level — near the top — and those at the 10th percentile level. That measures whether there’s room for wage improvement. Arizona is No. 38 nationwide. The report comes as questions of school funding have taken center stage in courtrooms and the gubernatorial race. Key is the ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court that during the recession state lawmakers ignored a 2000 voter-approved mandate to adjust aid to schools each year for inflation. The exact amount missed is still being litigated. But Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper said just resetting basic state aid to what it should have been had legislators complied with the law all along totals $317 million. If and when the state comes up with that cash, that will make another $279 per pupil available, on top of the approximately $7,550 a year per student from all sources.