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Arizona's Pilot Citizen Initiative Review

ContributorsMcFadden, Erica S. (Contributor) / Daughtery, David (Contributor) / Gastil, John (Contributor) / Knobloch, Katherine (Contributor) / Schugurensky, Daniel (Contributor) / Garcia, Joseph (Contributor) / Haque, Avanti (Contributor) / Morrison Institute of Public Policy (Contributor)
Created2015-12-01
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In September 2014 ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy conducted the state’s first Citizens Initiative Review (CIR). MI invited 20 participants to deliberate for 3½ days over a pension reform measure on the city ballot to develop a factually vetted, one-page Citizens’ Statement with the pros and cons of the…

In September 2014 ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy conducted the state’s first Citizens Initiative Review (CIR). MI invited 20 participants to deliberate for 3½ days over a pension reform measure on the city ballot to develop a factually vetted, one-page Citizens’ Statement with the pros and cons of the initiative. The goal of the CIR is to help other voters make a more informed decision on specific initiatives before going to the ballot box. This report, funded by the Kettering Foundation, analyzes CIR participant interviews conducted six weeks and six months later to show how values, beliefs, and behaviors towards democratic habits, public action, and community engagement may have been changed through their involvement, if at all. The report concludes with lessons learned and the contributions of the CIR to creating a more democratic Arizona.
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Finding & Keeping Educators for Arizona's Classrooms

ContributorsHunting, Dan (Contributor) / Reilly, Thom (Contributor) / Whitsett, Andrea (Contributor) / Briggs, Samantha (Contributor) / Garcia, Joseph (Contributor) / Hart, Bill (Contributor) / Morrison Institute of Public Policy (Contributor)
Created2017-05-01
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Arizona teacher recruitment, retention and pay are at crisis levels with more teachers leaving the profession annually than bachelor of education degrees produced by the three universities, compounded by an exodus of instructors for reasons ranging from retirement to poor salaries. Those are just some of the data points and…

Arizona teacher recruitment, retention and pay are at crisis levels with more teachers leaving the profession annually than bachelor of education degrees produced by the three universities, compounded by an exodus of instructors for reasons ranging from retirement to poor salaries. Those are just some of the data points and facts in the Morrison Institute for Public Policy report, Finding & Keeping Educators for Arizona’s Classrooms. The report includes extensive data provided by the Arizona Department of Education, as well as federal data on labor markets and educational statistics and Morrison Institute’s exclusive survey of teachers from throughout Arizona. MI Senior Policy Analyst Dan Hunting was the principal researcher.