Arizona has cut investment in K-12 schools, per student adjusted for inflation and many classes and activities, like PE, have gone by the wayside.Β 

β€œArizona has cut investment in K-12 schools, per student adjusted for inflation, by 17.5 percent since 2008 β€” putting us behind only Oklahoma and Alabama. Seventeen states have increased education funding since the recession.”

Source: Children’s Action Alliance, July 2015

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