TEACHERS ELECTED AMID WAVE OF ACTIVISM TURN TO GOVERNING
Tue, January 8, 2019 01:10 EST
PHOENIX (AP) — After a campaign buoyed by a surge in teacher activism, Arizona's new schools chief took office with a pledge to address the kind of grievances that led to school-shuttering walkouts in several states last spring.
Kathy Hoffman, a 33-year-old school speech therapist, is among hundreds of educators being sworn into office . . .
To take the oath of office at her inauguration Monday, Hoffman placed her hand upon "Too Many Moose,"
Nationwide, an unprecedented 1,800 current and former educators, administrators and support staffers ran for office in 2018, and more than half of them won, according to the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union.
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