At least 40 Arizona school districts, accounting for hundreds of thousands of students, will remain closed Thursday in what proved to be a chaotic Wednesday for many of those schools.
The AEU organizers and Arizona Education Association, the state's teachers' union, had said Tuesday night that teachers would return to work Thursday if the Legislature passed a budget by then.
But as the hours ticked by Wednesday and the budget talks among lawmakers appeared far from finished, many educators said they would stay at the Capitol, where thousands of them have observed legislators' debates.
