Letters to the Editor for March 28.
Teacher payThe $700 million cost of a bill to raise teacher pay $10,000 may sound huge. But do the math: A population of 7.3 million-plus works out to less than $96 per person. On average, a family of five would be taxed $1.33/person each day. It would seem worth it to reward/enhance/attract the current and future teachers of their and other children in Arizona. Of course, if the $700 million came from the $1.8 billion surplus, there would be no new costs.
Of course, you’ll have to be in class weekly, hear guest speakers, spend lots of time in the galleries. No tests involved! It would seem a really good fit for you. We could still show him some respect, as in “Not being aware of the mendacity that surrounds him, Mr. DOLT wants to run again.”Horne knows better than to ban booksBanning books is something Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne should viscerally find repugnant. He was born in Montreal in 1945 because his father was a refugee from the Holocaust in Poland and the racist, book-burning Nazis. When he was 4, his parents took him to New York, where he was naturalized as a U.S. citizen.
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