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Arizona Statewide Salary for Educators Amendment (2024)
| Arizona Statewide Salary for Educators Amendment | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Arizona Statewide Salary for Educators Amendment was not on the ballot in Arizona as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 5, 2024.
This amendment would have mandated a statewide salary schedule for K-12 educators, with first-year teachers earning $65,124.40 per year, not including fringe benefits, with subsequent years seeing a 5% yearly salary increase each year for up to 20 years. This amendment would have guaranteed all teachers to be eligible for pensions, and allowed for teachers currently earning more to maintain their advanced salary steps.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Arizona
In Arizona, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 15 percent of votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Petitions can be circulated for up to 24 months. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: 383,923 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 3, 2024.
If the secretary of state certifies that enough valid signatures were submitted, the initiative is put on the next general election ballot. The secretary of state verifies the signatures through a random sampling of 5 percent of submitted signatures working in collaboration with county recorders. If the random sampling indicates that valid signatures equal to between 95 percent and 105 percent of the required number were submitted, a full check of all signatures is required. If the random sampling shows fewer signatures, the petition fails. If the random sampling shows more, the initiative is certified for the ballot.
Stages of this ballot initiative
On November 8, 2023, TBI Writer LLC filed this ballot initiative with the secretary of state's office.
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