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Backers of wealth tax to fund Arizona kick off effort

| February 18, 2020 12:05 AM

PHOENIX (AP) — About 200 teachers and education advocates who support a proposal to raise taxes on wealthy Arizonans to boost school funding gathered at the Capitol Monday to formally kick off a signature-gathering effort to put the measure on the ballot.

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