Recession, politics and policy stretch Arizona school budgets

The word "Budget" is compressed with a vice. Business metaphor.

By Fernando Santos and Motoko Rich | The New York Times

In the rural Saddle Mountain Unified School District 50 miles west of Phoenix, three new libraries have been locked since last year. In a neighboring county, an elementary school closed last month because there was no money to keep it open, even after the district agreed to shift to a four-day week.

More Arizona educators are also taking on double duty: In the Miami Unified School District east of here, the superintendent is also a grant writer and the principal of the elementary school is also in charge of keeping the toilets running, as the district’s director of maintenance.

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