By Jim Small | Arizona Mirror
The race for the state Senate in Legislative District 28 got some national press today, courtesy of a piece in Teen Vogue on Christine Marsh’s transformation from high school teacher to Democratic candidate for elected office.
Marsh, the 2016 teacher of the year, told the magazine that she was compelled to run after a junior student asked her if kids in Arizona were worth less than kids in other states.
“And I, of course, didn’t know what he was talking about, and he said that we are funded near the bottom of the nation, so we must be worth less,” she said. “I responded that I didn’t think that was right but I got what he meant, the way kids in Arizona are treated would make a kid think that they are worth less. That was the first time that it really hit me that things have to change.”
