Beginning in 2008, government officials in Arizona began to make tax cuts and invest less in public education. With these cuts in the state of Arizona, it has created funding inequalities within the education system causing a lack of resources provided in schools and low teacher pay. In 2018, they spent 13.6 percent less on their students in Arizona since 2008. For teachers, in 2017, they had seen a 9.8 percent decrease in teacher salary beginning in 2008 (AEA, 2018). In 2017, public education funding was cut by another 1.2 percent (AEA, 2018). Educators in Arizona were not getting paid a livable wage and even so they had to use their own money to provide resources for students in the classroom. Then when comparing the 2018 estimated average teacher salary in Arizona ($49,892) with the national average ($61,782), Arizona was $11,890 below the national average (AEA, 2018). Not only that but they had to work in poor working conditions that were not suitable for learning, “For years, Arizona’s teachers taught in crumbling schools as they lived paycheck to paycheck and struggled to have even the most essential resources available for their students such as chairs and textbooks” (Karvelis, 2020). Therefore, educators and community organizers saw this as the last straw and decided to fight against the cuts through statewide teacher strikes and with walkouts during school. The demands educators and community organizers were asking were for 20 percent salary raise, restoration of 2008 funding in education, competitive pay for all support staff, permanent salaries which includes an annual raise and having no new tax cuts (The Republic, 2018).