What Arizona Teachers Are Still Fighting For [citylab.com]

Alicia Doktor 5/8/1812:00 PM

Sarah Rittenhouse has taught English at Challenger Middle School in Glendale, Arizona, for seven years. She loves her students, she loves her community, and, at the end of the day, she loves her job. But she’s tired.

The building in which she works is crumbling. Teacher turnover is high. Class sizes are huge. Counselors are spread too thin to adequately address the trauma experienced by many of her students, who come from refugee populations and low-income neighborhoods.

Rittenhouse is also angry.

[For more on this story by SARAH HOLDER, go to https://www.citylab.com/equity...fighting-for/559631/]

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