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    Commentary: In school wars, strikes are a mere skirmish

    by Derek Black, Los Angeles Times Apr 27, 2018 3 minutes

    Teachers are walking out again, this time shutting down campuses in 90 or more school districts across Arizona. Gov. Doug Ducey claims to be puzzled: He endorsed a plan to give teachers raises that would add up to a 20 percent pay increase over the next three years. Why would teachers walk out now?

    Surely part of the reason is that teachers in Arizona know a concession on pay isn't the same thing as a genuine commitment to public education. State leaders like Ducey are so dead set on privatizing education

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