More than 1,000 teachers in Arizona have quit since July, according to a new report.
The Arizona Department of Education recently released a survey showing a mass exodus over the last four months.
The number of teachers resigning before the start of a school year nearly doubled this year from 2024. According to the department’s survey last year, 517 teachers resigned after July.
But this year’s higher number came as no surprise to the department’s head and the head of the Arizona Education Association, who agree the state should raise teachers’ pay.
Tom Horne, the Arizona superintendent of public instruction, told The Center Square that the teacher shortage is “old news” to him.
