When the new school year starts mid-August, many Arkansas teachers will have spent the summer in a frustrating bid to convince legislators that they deserve a raise. The state has a budget surplus of one-point-six billion dollars, and in early June, Governor Asa Hutchinson said a pay increase for educators would be on the agenda for the special legislative session. Carol Fleming, president of the Arkansas Education Association, says it would have raised the starting pay from 36-thousand dollars a year to 46-thousand. But she says it’s off the table now, as the governor says he does not have enough legislative support to move it forward.
Fleming adds they will continue to rally and protest, with the next event on August 7th at 4 P-M in front of the State Capitol. The special session is set to start the week of August 8th.
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