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Teachers camp out as the Arizona legislature debates a budget negotiated by majority Republicans and GOP Gov. Doug Ducey Thursday, May 3, 2018, at the Capitol in Phoenix. The budget gives teachers big raises but falls short of their demands for better school funding. The teachers, in the sixth day of walk outs, have agreed to return to the classroom once the budget has been approved by the legislature.(AP Photo/Matt York) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In a light-hearted moment during tense budget debate in the Arizona Legislature, Republican Rep. Michelle Ugenti-Rita holds up a plastic tarantula in Phoenix, Ariz., Thursday, May 4, 2017. Ugenti-Rita had just screamed in fright when she spotted it under her desk. The Arizona Legislature was moving closer to passing a state budget plan late Thursday afternoon, with deal-cutting securing support from defiant Republicans in an effort to gain passage without minority Democratic support. (AP Photo/ Bob Christie)
