By Laura Aka for Working Nation.Broadcast version by Danielle Smith for Tennessee News Service reporting for the Working Nation-Public News Service Collaboration We all witnessed the significant impact the pandemic had on frontline health care workers. One in five health care workers has left their job since 2020, according to one industry report. And the exodus is not over. .
A new report is handing out grades to states for their support of public schools and Arizona gets an "F." The Network for Public Education s "Public Schooling in America" report examines and rates public education on 42 factors, including measuring the influx of private schools, as well as the impacts charter schools and voucher laws are having. Beth Lewis, co-founder and director of Save Our Schools Arizona, said most Arizona voters consider public schools what she calls the "backbone of our society." "Strong schools make a strong state, and we have disinvested in our public schools," Lewis contended. "Our lawmakers have walked away from funding our public schools and supporting our teachers and that is going to have long-term economic impacts for our state, and also for individual students. " .
Two-thirds of those who make the public schools function in Texas say they want to leave, according to a new survey and the teachers union said parents should be alarmed. Nicole Hill, communications director for the American Federation of Teachers-Texas, said the percentage of people dissatisfied is inching up in each survey. A large education funding package failed in the legislature last year and Gov. .
For GOP lawmakers who view public education as a quasi-socialist project, the gaping hole in state budgets left by subsidizing private school tuition is a feature, not a bug.