Over the past year, the salaries of teachers and other school system employees have been a major source of contention within state politics. The state government attempted to get a constitutional amendment passed during the May 16 election that would have permanently provided raises to teachers and “support workers” by dissolving three educational trust funds within the budget. But this amendment failed.
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