DeWit Prop 123 Prophecies Appear To Be Coming True
On Tuesday controversy erupted when the majority of the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board voted to award teachers a small pay raise with monies from Prop 123, while handsomely awarding administrators. On Wednesday, State Treasurer Jeff DeWit addressed the Board’s decision on the James T. Harris radio show.
DeWit had been a vocal opponent of the passage of Prop 123 due to the fact that it would raid the State Land Trust and came with no guarantees that the money would get to Arizona’s under-paid teachers. DeWit told Harris, “I went around the state and I said there’s not a single requirement that a dollar goes to teachers. If we are going to do something like this, we have to make sure it goes to teachers. The sales pitch was more money for teachers.” DeWit had questioned at the time why they wouldn’t put restrictions on the money, but his questions were dismissed by Governor Doug Ducey. “They said ‘no it is all going to go to teachers. Don’t worry.’”
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