PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed the full $10.4 billion state budget plan after earlier approving a part of the budget that funds education.
The governor’s office tweeted that he signed the remaining nine bills in the spending plan for the budget year beginning July 1 just after 5 p.m. Thursday. He had signed the education package at about 6 a.m., after it passed both the House and Senate.
Thursday morning’s passage came after a weeklong teachers’ strike that shut down school for most of the state’s 1.1 million public school students.
The budget provides about $4.5 billion for K-12 education, $1.8 billion for the state’s Medicaid program, $1.1 billion for prisons and $725 million for public universities.
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